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
- 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。 - 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。 - India-Elephant Howdah Howdah translates as throne, a throwback to the days when the ornate platforms transported India's royalty from one place to the next.
Howdah被翻译为宝座，把我们带回过去印度王族乘坐这种华丽工具从一个地方去到另一个地方的日子。 - Come on now, you ain't hardly no throwback, caitlin.
别这么说，你不会出丑，凯特琳。 - And yet, game elements aside, the film is almost a throwback, resembling the Indiana Jones movies.
撇开游戏因素不说，该片几乎和印第安纳-琼斯电影如出一辙，算是穿越题材影片。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。