throwback

释义

• （俚）复古队服

词源

throwback (n.)

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).

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。
• 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。
• 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.
• 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.
• 5. 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.