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Definition of throwback in English: throwbacknounˈθrəʊbakˈθroʊˌbæk 1A reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic. 返祖(型) the eyes could be an ancestral throwback 那双眼睛可能是返祖型的。 Example sentencesExamples - Aidan was a genetic throwback, apparently, with pale skin and pale hair that was similar to that belonging to several of the family's relations.
- These atavistic hind legs are nothing less than throwbacks to a totally pre-whale stage of their existence, some fifty million years ago.
- As already mentioned, one of the possible throwbacks to the past is our love of swimming.
- So why must all men look like atavistic throwbacks?
- We must clean house and send every one of these evolutionary throwbacks to the pond from which they slithered.
- Ben is a genetic throwback to Neanderthal man, shunned by family and society for his stupidity and ugliness.
- What if, instead, the attraction is an atavistic throwback to the prehistoric human fascination with telling takes?
- Included in his thesis was the contention that notions of family and community - based around altruistic ties - were throwbacks to more primitive forms of society.
- He came to view born criminals less as evolutionary throwbacks and more in terms of arrested development and degeneracy.
- Three-foot tall individuals do not mean an evolutionary throwback.
Synonyms send back, throw back, cast back, give back, bounce back, shine back, return, mirror - 1.1 A person or thing having the characteristics of a former time.
返古者,返祖物 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。 Example sentencesExamples - He told Scotland on Sunday: ‘I think the Tories know they can portray him as a throwback to Old Labour.’
- So is this new trend a throwback to the 1980s and the heady fragrances which reeked of sex and were banned from select restaurants because they put people off their meals?
- It's a quote that sounds like a throwback to preintegration days.
- Warner is a throwback to the quarterbacks of old.
- Google's design has been mimicked on the search pages of MSN and Yahoo, whose portals are messy throwbacks to the ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ school of Web design.
- Perhaps this is a throwback to my kitchen days when the restaurant's French chef would share an after-work bottle of red with his hard-labouring team.
- The new album is an evolution, not a throwback, but it does contain references to every stage of U2's career.
- Rudin is a throwback to an earlier era when apprenticeship loomed larger than academia in professional training.
- The Persians who live in Los Angeles describe Meybodi as the Larry King of Iran, but he's more dignified than that, a throwback to an earlier age of TV talk shows.
- Compared to the other semi-finalists here, the Italians were criticised for representing a throwback to a bygone, defensive mentality.
- Yes, he may be a throwback to a former and, in many ways, best-forgotten age in which golf was populated mainly by right-wing reactionaries.
- This year has seen a number of films that feel like throwbacks to the 70s, and I like that.
- They're a throwback to the cathedral towns of the Middle Ages - part resort, part market place, part town square and part extended family.
- At first sound, the Beatles seemed a throwback to the rockabilly 50s.
- The silver-haired Virginian with courtly manners is a throwback to a forgotten era of congressional comity.
- He was a throwback to the type of player Scotland used to produce and it was a pleasure to watch him play.
- Last year the poet hit the headlines when he turned down the opportunity to be made an OBE, saying the award was a throwback to the days of the defunct British Empire.
- But with agricultural advances, shepherds are becoming an anachronism - a throwback to a time long before the advent of the Honda quad bike.
- Right off the bat I should say that just because this record has all kinds of '80s throwbacks on it doesn't immediately qualify it as a throwback album.
- Some say a new Florida law is a throwback to the Wild West.
Definition of throwback in US English: throwbacknounˈTHrōˌbakˈθroʊˌbæk 1A reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic. 返祖(型) the eyes could be an ancestral throwback 那双眼睛可能是返祖型的。 Example sentencesExamples - Aidan was a genetic throwback, apparently, with pale skin and pale hair that was similar to that belonging to several of the family's relations.
- What if, instead, the attraction is an atavistic throwback to the prehistoric human fascination with telling takes?
- Three-foot tall individuals do not mean an evolutionary throwback.
- Included in his thesis was the contention that notions of family and community - based around altruistic ties - were throwbacks to more primitive forms of society.
- He came to view born criminals less as evolutionary throwbacks and more in terms of arrested development and degeneracy.
- As already mentioned, one of the possible throwbacks to the past is our love of swimming.
- These atavistic hind legs are nothing less than throwbacks to a totally pre-whale stage of their existence, some fifty million years ago.
- So why must all men look like atavistic throwbacks?
- We must clean house and send every one of these evolutionary throwbacks to the pond from which they slithered.
- Ben is a genetic throwback to Neanderthal man, shunned by family and society for his stupidity and ugliness.
Synonyms send back, throw back, cast back, give back, bounce back, shine back, return, mirror - 1.1 A person or thing having the characteristics of a former time.
返古者,返祖物 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。 Example sentencesExamples - Rudin is a throwback to an earlier era when apprenticeship loomed larger than academia in professional training.
- Perhaps this is a throwback to my kitchen days when the restaurant's French chef would share an after-work bottle of red with his hard-labouring team.
- Yes, he may be a throwback to a former and, in many ways, best-forgotten age in which golf was populated mainly by right-wing reactionaries.
- He was a throwback to the type of player Scotland used to produce and it was a pleasure to watch him play.
- The silver-haired Virginian with courtly manners is a throwback to a forgotten era of congressional comity.
- Some say a new Florida law is a throwback to the Wild West.
- Google's design has been mimicked on the search pages of MSN and Yahoo, whose portals are messy throwbacks to the ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ school of Web design.
- He told Scotland on Sunday: ‘I think the Tories know they can portray him as a throwback to Old Labour.’
- Warner is a throwback to the quarterbacks of old.
- Right off the bat I should say that just because this record has all kinds of '80s throwbacks on it doesn't immediately qualify it as a throwback album.
- This year has seen a number of films that feel like throwbacks to the 70s, and I like that.
- They're a throwback to the cathedral towns of the Middle Ages - part resort, part market place, part town square and part extended family.
- Last year the poet hit the headlines when he turned down the opportunity to be made an OBE, saying the award was a throwback to the days of the defunct British Empire.
- The new album is an evolution, not a throwback, but it does contain references to every stage of U2's career.
- But with agricultural advances, shepherds are becoming an anachronism - a throwback to a time long before the advent of the Honda quad bike.
- It's a quote that sounds like a throwback to preintegration days.
- The Persians who live in Los Angeles describe Meybodi as the Larry King of Iran, but he's more dignified than that, a throwback to an earlier age of TV talk shows.
- At first sound, the Beatles seemed a throwback to the rockabilly 50s.
- Compared to the other semi-finalists here, the Italians were criticised for representing a throwback to a bygone, defensive mentality.
- So is this new trend a throwback to the 1980s and the heady fragrances which reeked of sex and were banned from select restaurants because they put people off their meals?
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