throwback
返祖
definition
noun
the eyes could be an ancestral throwback
a reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic.
translation of 'throwback'
noun
返祖,
阻止
example
He told Scotland on Sunday: ‘I think the Tories know they can portray him as a 'throwback' to Old Labour.’
Yes, he may be a 'throwback' to a former and, in many ways, best-forgotten age in which golf was populated mainly by right-wing reactionaries.
It's a quote that sounds like a 'throwback' to preintegration days.
The new album is an evolution, not a 'throwback' , but it does contain references to every stage of U2's career.
the eyes could be an ancestral 'throwback'
The Persians who live in Los Angeles describe Meybodi as the Larry King of Iran, but he's more dignified than that, a 'throwback' to an earlier age of TV talk shows.
Three-foot tall individuals do not mean an evolutionary 'throwback' .
Some say a new Florida law is a 'throwback' to the Wild West.
Perhaps this is a 'throwback' to my kitchen days when the restaurant's French chef would share an after-work bottle of red with his hard-labouring team.
Rudin is a 'throwback' to an earlier era when apprenticeship loomed larger than academia in professional training.
But with agricultural advances, shepherds are becoming an anachronism - a 'throwback' to a time long before the advent of the Honda quad bike.
a lot of his work is a 'throwback' to the fifties
So is this new trend a 'throwback' to the 1980s and the heady fragrances which reeked of sex and were banned from select restaurants because they put people off their meals?
Last year the poet hit the headlines when he turned down the opportunity to be made an OBE, saying the award was a 'throwback' to the days of the defunct British Empire.
Aidan was a genetic 'throwback' , apparently, with pale skin and pale hair that was similar to that belonging to several of the family's relations.
Compared to the other semi-finalists here, the Italians were criticised for representing a 'throwback' to a bygone, defensive mentality.
At first sound, the Beatles seemed a 'throwback' to the rockabilly 50s.
a lot of his work is a 'throwback' to the fifties
Ben is a genetic 'throwback' to Neanderthal man, shunned by family and society for his stupidity and ugliness.
He was a 'throwback' to the type of player Scotland used to produce and it was a pleasure to watch him play.
They're a 'throwback' to the cathedral towns of the Middle Ages - part resort, part market place, part town square and part extended family.
Warner is a 'throwback' to the quarterbacks of old.
the eyes could be an ancestral 'throwback'
The silver-haired Virginian with courtly manners is a 'throwback' to a forgotten era of congressional comity.
What if, instead, the attraction is an atavistic 'throwback' to the prehistoric human fascination with telling takes?
We must clean house and send every one of these evolutionary 'throwbacks' to the pond from which they slithered.
Included in his thesis was the contention that notions of family and community - based around altruistic ties - were 'throwbacks' to more primitive forms of society.
These atavistic hind legs are nothing less than 'throwbacks' to a totally pre-whale stage of their existence, some fifty million years ago.
He came to view born criminals less as evolutionary 'throwbacks' and more in terms of arrested development and degeneracy.
Right off the bat I should say that just because this record has all kinds of '80s 'throwbacks' on it doesn't immediately qualify it as a throwback album.
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