throwback

英 [ˈθrəʊ.bæk] 美 [ˈθroʊ.bæk]
我的生词本 » 报错反馈
  • (俚)复古队服
GRE
使用频率★星级词汇★

词族 · throwback

词形变化与派生词,串起来记
词形变化

英语词源

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).

权威例句

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.

开通会员 · 学习更高效

首发优惠 12月31日止 · 年卡立省 30 元

同义词拓展 / 云端生词本 / 学习计划 / 去广告

查看权益 »

同义词拓展