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单词 throwback
释义
throwback
noun[Cusually singular]
uk
/ˈθrəʊ.bæk/us
/ˈθroʊ.bæk/
apersonor thing that issimilarto anearliertype:
返祖者；类似先前种类的东西
He's anunappealingthrowbacktothedaysof 80s Cityslickers.他一点没有吸引力，活脱脱像是一个80年代的城里老油子。
In somewaysthe newapplettechnologywas a throwbacktotheoldpre-PCdays.在某些方面，新的小应用程序技术类似以前个人电脑出现前的技术。
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(Definition ofthrowbackfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

throwback| American Dictionary

throwback
noun[C]
us
/ˈθroʊˌbæk/
something that is like a thing from anearliertime:
This year’sstylesare throwbacks to thefashionsof the 1940s.
(Definition ofthrowbackfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Or they may be just athrowbackto the old days when every phone number began with a real word, called an exchange.
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It is the acts of barbarity, athrowbackfrom the past; it is the violence that we have lived with for so long.
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That is athrowbackto the neoclassical economics idea that macro-economics is merely micro-economics writ large.
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It is athrowbackto the 1960s and it deserves the support of no one.
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Is not it about time that we got rid of thatthrowbackto medieval times?
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In my view, the attitude is athrowbackto the era of obsessive secrecy which should be over.
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It is athrowbackthat should be thrown back.
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I suppose that that is athrowbackto the pensions business.
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Perhaps we were listening to athrowbackto that a few moments ago.
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The placeman is athrowbackto the 19th century.
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The dispute is also athrowbackin another way.
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Perhaps it is athrowbackto the era of shortages during and immediately after the war.
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For instance, throwbacks to primeval types are often created.
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His approach and that of his party is athrowbackto his party's policies of more than 50 years ago.
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He is suffering from athrowbackto the depressing, deflationary days when his party were in power, and when there was an insufficiency of enterprise.
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