throwback
英 ['θrəʊbæk]
美 ['θrobæk]
英文词源
- throwback (n.)
- also throw-back, "reversion to an ancestral type or character," 1888, from throw (v.) + back (adv.); earlier it meant "a reverse in a course or progress, a relapse" (1856).
双语例句
- 1. 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。
来自《权威词典》
- 2. 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。
来自辞典例句
- 3. 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.
来自辞典例句
- 4. 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.
来自辞典例句
- 5. 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.
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