throwback 详细解释

throwback

['θrəubæk]

n.返回, 返祖现象

n.[C][(+to)]

1. 返回; 大倒退

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。

2. 【生】返祖现象; 返祖者(=atavism)

Being a sort of throwback to the Victorian age, she won't go against her old dad's wishes.

她有点像维多利亚时代的女性, 不肯违背自己老父的意愿。

词形变化

名词复数: throwaways |

英英释义

名词 throwback:

an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism

同义词：atavist

a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

同义词：atavism, reversion

形容词 throwback:

characteristic of an atavist

同义词：atavistic

补充

throwbackthrowback英:[ˈθrəubæk] 美:[ˈθroˌbæk]n.1.掷回,挫折,阻止,大倒退,返祖

例句

1. The hall is a throwback to another era with its old prints and stained-glass.这个大厅里的旧版画和彩色玻璃令人想起另一个时代。 2. the eyes could be an ancestral throwback.那双眼睛可能是返祖型的。 3. a lot of his work is a throwback to the fifties.他的许多作品带有50年代的返古味道。 4. She's a throwback to the actresses of the 1950s.她具有20世纪50年代的女演员风格。 5. The band's music is a throwback to the 1980s.这支乐队的音乐风格回归到20世纪80年代。

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