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发音：[ˈθroʊˌbæk]
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例句：
- The term throwback is typically used to describe something or someone that exhibits characteristics or traits of a previous time period or previous generation. It can refer to physical traits, such as a person having the same facial features or body type as a distant ancestor, or to behavioral or cultural traits that harken back to an earlier era.
- Jimmy Fallon took us on a trip down memory lane with another throwback segment during his second evening as the new host of the Tonight Show, this time showcasing the early 2000s.
- In honor of Jackson’s time with the White Sox and the scandal that led to his ban, both teams will sport throwback uniforms from 1919 during the game.
- In today’s world of rampant consumerism and early holiday shopping, this destination is a throwback to a different era of shopping.
- The first episode of Netflix’s Wu Assassins is a thrilling homage to Hong Kong cinema with a dynamic throwback fight scene that takes place in a series of halls and stairwells.
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解释：
- Throwback这个单词做名词使用，其表示“something or someone that exhibits characteristics or traits of a previous time period or previous generation”这一含义，即“返祖型的东西/复古队服/回归/返祖现象”等，与recurrence/atavism这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- The drive-in movie theater is a throwback to the 1950s, when families would pack into their cars to watch the latest Hollywood blockbusters under the stars.（汽车电影院是1950年代的倒退，当时家庭会挤进车里，在星空下观看最新的好莱坞大片。）
–Culture - For Europeans, Nokia’s revamped ‘brick’ is a throwback to a simpler, more innocent age, when phones were for speaking and reading on the train meant buying a newspaper.（对于欧洲人来说，诺基亚改造后的“砖头”是回到一个更简单、更无辜的时代，当时手机在火车上说话和阅读意味着买报纸。）
–Technology - The endless frontier was ‘basic’ research, the kind performed “without thought of practical ends”, a direct throwback to the nineteenth-century idea of pure science.（无尽的前沿是“基础”研究，那种“不考虑实际目的”的研究，直接回到了十九世纪的纯科学观念。）
–Science - The emerging economic divide suggests a throwback to the Cold War, when the West and the Soviet bloc largely operated in separate economic spheres.（新出现的经济鸿沟表明，冷战时期正在倒退，当时西方和苏联集团主要在不同的经济领域运作。）
–Economy
