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词汇 throwback
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Definition of throwback in English:

throwback

nounˈθrəʊbakˈθroʊˌbæk
  • 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. 1.1 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.

Rhymes

blowback

Definition of throwback in US English:

throwback

nounˈTHrōˌbakˈθroʊˌbæk
  • 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. 1.1 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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