1. 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”。
2. The negative gradient is a throwback to the earlier days of chromatography when columns were less stable than they are today. 负梯度是一回撤的过程，早期的色谱柱子没有今天的那么稳定，所以需要这样做。
3. FARC's kidnap and murder of a provincial governor in late December was a grisly throwback to the bad old days of a decade ago. 去年十二月的哥伦比亚革命武装力量的绑架案和一个省州长的谋杀案让人惊恐地想到十年前的那些黑暗日子。
英英解释
n.
1. an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism
2. a reappearance of an earlier characteristic adj.
1. characteristic of an atavist
