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throw back

/throh-bak/US // ˈθroʊˌbæk //UK // (ˈθrəʊˌbæk) //

扔回,抛回,扔回来,抛出

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Biology. the reversion to an ancestral or earlier type or character; atavism. an individual having the characteristics of a remote ancestor or primitive type; an example of atavism.
    • : a person or thing that evokes memories or imitates something from the past: These chandeliers are designed as a throwback to those old-style candlelit lanterns.On their anniversary, she took to social media with a throwback photo from their wedding reception.
    • : an act of throwing back: A sudden ban on fish throwbacks could harm ecosystems, since a range of predator species are reliant on discarded fish as a food source.
    • : a setback or check.

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Examples

  • This browser is something of a throwback in terms of its appearance.

  • On the back, there's a throwback capacitive fingerprint reader—a contrast to the in-screen fingerprint readers most phones ship with—and a camera block.

  • Each of the eight episodes will focus on a specific paranormal incident, a throwback to a classic monster-of-the-week format.

  • This industrial lamp brings a throwback appeal to your bedroom—dimmable Edison bulb included.

  • Campus appears to be a throwback to the first days of Facebook, when a person had to have a college email address and attend a select group of universities to be able to join.

  • But Willie Watson is a throwback to the days of Woody Guthrie and early Bob Dylan.

  • That, I thought, was racism, and a throwback for America, to simply vote for a man because of the color of his skin.

  • Politically, Cianci is something of a throwback to a time when conservative, ethnic politics dominated urban centers.

  • What does Soylent have going for it other than missionary zeal and a revoltingly kitschy sci-fi throwback name?

  • For many of the young she is seen as a throwback to a past few want to see repeated.

  • You're sort of a throwback to the days when they needed barnstormers to correct bad working-conditions, aren't you?

  • The third dog of the team was Slasher, a gaunt, untamed malamute, red-eyed and vicious—a throwback to the wolf.

  • In face, figure, expression, and manner he was a five-hundred-year throwback to his Holland ancestors.

  • An atavistic throwback to primitive barbarism is more difficult for us who have twenty centuries behind us more than they have.

  • He was lighter—perhaps a throwback to some distant age when all sturgeon were white—and thus he was the easiest to see.