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
- Far from being a reactionary throwback, a version of nine-to-five is being practised in one of the coolest companies on earth.
朝九晚五远非被动的还击，地球上最酷的一家公司正在实践。 - The film seems to be a throwback to the1970s.
这部电影好像是对20世纪70年代的重现。 - Life is more wholesome: there, a throwback to simpler times.
那里的生活更有益于健康，它仿佛使你返回到更加纯朴的原始时代。 - They see me as, as one of those throwback fighters.
他们看我是我就是，我就是一种有起落的拳手。 - 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。 - Nor is it just the film; these throwback readers were out there in droves long before the movie campaign opened.
这也不仅是因为电影。在《哈里·波特》电影开始宣传之前很久就已经有了成群结队的返老还童的读者。 - He's not a populist at all. He's sort of a typical throwback to the Japanese prime minister of yore, the faceless grey suits.
他一点也不受欢迎，他有点像是退回到传统典型的日本首相，面无表情地身着灰色西装。 - Meanwhile, inflation is reviving throwback elements of state economic planning.
同时，通货膨胀也正在“抵消”中央的经济政策。 - Come on now, you ain't hardly no throwback, caitlin.
别这么说，你不会出丑，凯特琳。 - It appears to be a throwback to prehistoric times that it has somehow managed to survive.
不知什么原因它竟然能够存活下来，这看来是对史前时期的一种返祖现象。