throwback

noun

1. 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
   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。

1. N-COUNT 复古;回归
   If you say that something is a throwback to a former time, you mean that it is like something that existed a long time ago.
   1. 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。

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. Come on now, you ain't hardly no throwback, caitlin.
   别这么说，你不会出丑，凯特琳。
6. 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。
7. Yeah, so, first of all, it was interesting, you throwback to HP.
   你回首了惠普的往事，让我深有感触。
8. This might seem an unthinkable throwback.
   这看起来似乎是一种不可思议的倒退。
9. 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。
10. It's a throwback to the first weapons our remote ancestors used on the African savannah: Hit the sucker with a rock.
    这是一次大倒退，就像我们在南非大草原的远祖用的第一件武器：用石头扔那些王八蛋吧。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. He's not a populist at all. He's sort of a typical throwback to the Japanese prime minister of yore, the faceless grey suits.
    他一点也不受欢迎，他有点像是退回到传统典型的日本首相，面无表情地身着灰色西装。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. Chinese spokesmen denounced this as a throwback to the days when America thought it could, and should, try to "contain" the People's Republic.
    中国发言人谴责道，美国认为它还应该，可以“包括”中国民国，这是历史的倒退。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. 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。
22. 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。
23. Meanwhile, inflation is reviving throwback elements of state economic planning.
    同时，通货膨胀也正在“抵消”中央的经济政策。
24. 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。
25. 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。
26. In another throwback, plans are afoot to create a "bad bank" for Dexia's worst assets.
    又是一起复古事件，人们正在制定计划为德克夏的最差资产创建一个“不良债权”。
27. 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。
28. The one they have here is a Soviet throwback and ultimately no match for conventional navies.
    这个是苏联时代旳产物，跟现在旳常规海军根本不配套。
29. 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。
30. 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。

noun

1. a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

   Synonym:    atavismreversion

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

   Synonym:    atavist