throwback
英 [ˈθrəʊbæk]
美 [ˈθroʊbæk]
n. 返祖者; 返祖; 返祖型的东西
复数：throwbacks
BNC.22673 / COCA.15978
牛津词典
noun
- 返祖者；返祖；返祖型的东西
a person or thing that is similar to sb/sth that existed in the past- The car's design is a throwback to the 1960s.
这种汽车的设计回到了20世纪60年代。
- The car's design is a throwback to the 1960s.
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 复古;回归
If you say that something is athrowbackto a former time, you mean that it is like something that existed a long time ago.- The hall is a throwback to another era with its old prints and stained-glass.
这个大厅的古老图案和彩色玻璃是对过去一个时代风格的回归。
- The hall is a throwback to another era with its old prints and stained-glass.
英英释义
noun
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism
双语例句
- This might seem an unthinkable throwback.
这看起来似乎是一种不可思议的倒退。 - The curtains are a throwback to a William Morris design, there are exposed brick walls, and the floor-to-ceiling bathroom tiles are creamy oblongs similar to those in the New York subway.
房间的窗帘是威廉•莫里斯（WilliamMorris）设计风格的回归。还有祼露的砖墙。浴室墙壁上，从天花到地板都采用奶油色长方形墙砖，这与纽约地铁里倒有几分相似。 - Bernanke is a throwback to a more traditional Fed chairman: smart, dull and straightforward.
伯南克代表着向一种更为传统美联储主席形象的回归：聪明、古板而坦率。 - The Quai Branly museum may be just six years old, but it is in its way old-fashioned, a throwback to a less timorous time when museums were proud to display human scalps and heads shrunken by Amazon tribes ( pictured).
凯布朗利博物馆可能只有六年的历史，但它的展览方式却有些复古怀旧，回到了过去那种较为大胆的时期：以展出人类的头皮和亚马逊部落的皱缩头颅（如图）为荣。 - What looks like a simple throwback to Java's enhanced for loop turns out to be far more powerful than anything the average Java programmer can begin to imagine.
该结构看起来像是Java的增强for循环的简单早期版，但它远比一般的Java编程人员开始设想的更强大。 - Chinese spokesmen denounced this as a throwback to the days when America thought it could, and should, try to "contain" the People's Republic.
中国发言人谴责道，美国认为它还应该，可以“包括”中国民国，这是历史的倒退。 - The hastily assembled stimulus packages were a throwback to naive Keynesianism.
而匆忙出台刺激计划，则是向幼稚的凯恩斯主义的大退步。 - Critics say displaying dwarfs is at best misguided and at worst immoral, a throwback to times when freak shows pandered to people's morbid curiosity.
批评者说，展示矮星是最错误的，从最坏的不道德，一个怪物时显示迎合人们的病态的好奇心时代倒退。 - It's a throwback to the first weapons our remote ancestors used on the African savannah: Hit the sucker with a rock.
这是一次大倒退，就像我们在南非大草原的远祖用的第一件武器：用石头扔那些王八蛋吧。 - Come on now, you ain't hardly no throwback, caitlin.
别这么说，你不会出丑，凯特琳。