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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Indeed, it is the throwback quality that makes him valuable to Manchester United.
事实上，对曼联而言，重返巅峰的能力让欧文具备了价值。 - His sentiments were a throwback to the old colonial days.
他的观点还是从前殖民时代的那种观点。 - For the first time ever, all193 members of the United Nations have signed the traditional Olympic truce, a throwback to the ancient games.
联合国193个成员国首次共同签署《奥林匹克休战协议》，该协议源自古代奥林匹克。 - To some, these arguments might sound self-serving, if not a throwback to old Reagan-era free-market views.
在一些人看来，上述观点就算不是朝着里根时代旧自由市场观点的倒退，可能也有自私之嫌。 - Come on now, you ain't hardly no throwback, caitlin.
别这么说，你不会出丑，凯特琳。 - 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。