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
- In the age of cloud computing that is just dawning, Apple, with its reliance on hardware sales and a technology model that depends on software running on client devices, looks like a throwback.
云计算时代已拉开帷幕，而苹果仍依赖于硬件销售、以及靠客户端设备运行软件的技术模式，这看上去像是在逆时代潮流而动。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - What the Yankees have here, it appears, is a throwback: A one-time ace in the twilight of his career, aging naturally.
目前洋基所有的，看起来就像个回传球；一个曾经的王牌进入生涯的尾声，自然的老化。 - 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。