The technical term for an evolutionary throwback is an "atavism", from the Latin atavus, meaning forefather.(“进化返祖”的专业术语是“atavism”,源自拉丁语的“atavus”,意为祖先。)
It's a throwback to some earlier way of thinking.(是对早期思维方式的回归。)
Italy's Battle of Oranges is a throwback to the Middle Ages.(意大利的桔子大战可以追溯到中世纪时期。)
He said that his disregard for monogamy wasn't a chauvinistic throwback, but quite the opposite: the ultimate nod to feminism.(他说他对一夫一妻制的不屑并不是一种“大男子主义”方面的倒退;而是恰恰相反:对“女权主义”的终极认可。)
They saw the evil of their own time “not as throwback but preface”.(他们将自己所处时代的邪恶势力视为”序幕,而非过往”。)
The FARC are in some ways a throwback to a past era in Latin America.(FARC从某些角度说是倒退到了拉丁美洲的过去。)
TAKING your hat off at the door may seem like a throwback to a more genteel age.(进门脱帽,这似乎倒退回了那装模作样的年代。)
Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews argued at the time that the whale must be a throwback to a land-living ancestor.(探险家罗伊·查普曼·安德鲁斯当时认为,鲸鱼一定是一种返祖的陆地生物。)
MLB Throwback jerseys Buddha is very angry, thinking: I have a magic to help me, so finally won a Buddha.(佛祖很生气,心想:我有法力可助我一臂之力,就这样佛祖终于赢了一把。)
It's a throwback, and it does not protect women.(是一个大倒退,它不保护妇女的权益。)