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.
