单词	throwback
释义	throwback /ˈθrəʊbak / noun 1A reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic: the eyes could be an ancestral throwback... 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. So why must all men look like atavistic throwbacks? What if, instead, the attraction is an atavistic throwback to the prehistoric human fascination with telling takes? 1.1A person or thing having the characteristics of a former time: a lot of his work is a throwback to the fifties... But with agricultural advances, shepherds are becoming an anachronism - a throwback to a time long before the advent of the Honda quad bike. 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. At first sound, the Beatles seemed a throwback to the rockabilly 50s. Rhymes blowback
随便看	receipt book receiptless receiptor receivable receival receive received idea receivedness received pronunciation received standard Received Standard English receiver receiver general receiver of wreck receiver of wrecks receivership receiving apparatus receiving barn receiving blanket receiving country receiving end receiving line receiving order receiving ship receiving valve

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