English Dictionary

throwback

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈθɹəʊ.bæk/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 軽蔑的 限定用法 頻度副詞 俗語 アメリカ英語

A reversion to an earlier stage of development. / (derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient. / An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.

日本語の意味

発達初期への逆戻り、または原始的な状態への回帰。 / （蔑称として）原始的で野蛮、知的に遅れているとみなされる人物。 / より原始的な特徴を持つ生物。

The sudden resurgence of vinyl records felt like a throwback to the golden age of analog music.

ビニール盤の突然の復活は、アナログ音楽の全盛期への回帰のように感じられた。

意味（1）

A reversion to an earlier stage of development.

You see, the House of Representatives recently passed a military budget that is wholly inadequate, a throwback to the seventies, a budget that is a breach of faith with our Armed Forces and our allies and would send exactly the wrong signal to the Soviets and their satellites.

意味（2）

(derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.

意味（3）

An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.

意味（4）

An atavism.

意味（5）

A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.

But this is marvellous. It might be his portrait. Yes, it is an interesting instance of a throwback, which appears to be both physical and spiritual. A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the doctrine of reincarnation. The fellow is a Baskerville—that is evident.

意味（6）

(slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.

Céline Dion belted her iconic song My Heart Will Go On in a show-stopping performance at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on May 21. The legendary singer gave the throwback performance in honor of the 20th anniversary of the hit song from the Titanic soundtrack.

意味（7）

(US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.

Under the throwback rule, sales into a state where the taxpayer is not taxable are “thrown back” from the destination state to the origin state by adding the nontaxable sales to the numerator in the apportionment factor.

throwbacks （ plural ）