The technical term for an evolutionary throwback is an "atavism", from the Latin atavus, meaning forefather.(“進化返祖”的專業(yè)術(shù)語是“atavism”，源自拉丁語的“atavus”，意為祖先。)

It's a throwback to some earlier way of thinking.(是對早期思維方式的回歸。)

Italy's Battle of Oranges is a throwback to the Middle Ages.(意大利的桔子大戰(zhàn)可以追溯到中世紀時期。)

He said that his disregard for monogamy wasn't a chauvinistic throwback, but quite the opposite: the ultimate nod to feminism.(他說他對一夫一妻制的不屑并不是一種“大男子主義”方面的倒退；而是恰恰相反：對“女權(quán)主義”的終極認可。)

They saw the evil of their own time “not as throwback but preface”.(他們將自己所處時代的邪惡勢力視為”序幕，而非過往”。)

The FARC are in some ways a throwback to a past era in Latin America.(FARC從某些角度說是倒退到了拉丁美洲的過去。)

TAKING your hat off at the door may seem like a throwback to a more genteel age.(進門脫帽，這似乎倒退回了那裝模作樣的年代。)

Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews argued at the time that the whale must be a throwback to a land-living ancestor.(探險家羅伊·查普曼·安德魯斯當(dāng)時認為，鯨魚一定是一種返祖的陸地生物。)

MLB Throwback jerseys Buddha is very angry, thinking: I have a magic to help me, so finally won a Buddha.(佛祖很生氣，心想：我有法力可助我一臂之力，就這樣佛祖終于贏了一把。)

It's a throwback, and it does not protect women.(是一個大倒退，它不保護婦女的權(quán)益。)