throwback

throwback
noun
  1. a reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic
    返祖(型)
    the eyes could be an ancestral throwback.
    那双眼睛可能是返祖型的。
    ■a person or thing having the characteristics of a former time
    返古者
    a lot of his work is a throwback to the fifties.
    他的许多作品带有50年代的返古味道。
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