throwback 的定义
- 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.
throwback 近义词
等同于 legacy
等同于 retrogression
等同于 reversion
等同于 regression
throwback 的近义词 6 个
等同于 retrogradation
throwback 的近义词 6 个
更多throwback例句
- 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.