Nestlé
opens the first Kit Kat store in Japan, selling limited-edition flavors
like “Sublime Bitter,” and “Right sweetness for adults.”
News Analysis
In the East China Sea, a Far Bigger Test of Power Looms
By DAVID E. SANGER
In an era when the Obama administration has been focused on new
forms of conflict, the dangerous contest suddenly erupting in the East
China Sea seems almost a throwback to the Cold War.
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This elegant soap opera about masters and their servants in the twilight of the British Empire was a shameless throwback to “Upstairs Downstairs” and “The Forsyte Saga.” Season 2 is in many ways as captivating and addictive as
the first, but this time around, the series comes off as a shameless throwback to itself.
The Born Identity
Published: July 30, 2010
When I heard that Huggies had begun to sell a “
limited-edition jeans diaper,” and that its bigger rival Pampers was offering a new diaper line carrying the imprimatur of the fashion designer
Cynthia Rowley, it struck me as a throwback.
The
noun throwback has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: an organism that has the characteristics of a more
primitive type of that organism
Synonym:
atavist
Meaning #2: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
Synonyms:
atavism,
reversion
The
adjective throwback has one meaning:
Meaning #1: characteristic of an atavist
Synonym:
atavistic
thrówbàck[thrów・bàck]
[名]((通例単数形))
1 投げ返し.
2 あと戻り, 逆流, 逆行, （昔のものの）再来, 復活((to ...))；阻止.
3 （…の）昔からあったもの, 遺物((to ...)).
4 《映画》切り返し.
noun
a reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic:the eyes could be an ancestral throwback
a person or thing having the characteristics of a former time:a lot of his work is a throwback to the fifties
limited edition
1
American Primitive
Look at him there in his stovepipe hat,
His high-top shoes, and his handsome collar;
Only my Daddy could look like that,
And I love my Daddy like he loves his Dollar.
The screen door bangs, and it sounds so funny--
There he is in a shower of gold;
His pockets are stuffed with folding money,
His lips are blue, and his hands feel cold.
He hangs in the hall by his black cravat,
The ladies faint, and the children holler:
Only my Daddy could look like that,
And I love my Daddy like he loves his Dollar.
William Jay Smith的這首詩用了領巾cravat
所以primitive 不是原始人
The cravat is a neckband, the forerunner of the
modern tailored necktie
and bow tie,
originating from 17th-century Croatia.[2]
Definition of primitive
adjective
1 relating to, denoting, or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary or historical development of something:primitive mammals Primitive Germanic
relating
to or denoting a preliterate, non-industrial society or culture
characterized by simple social and economic organization:primitive people
(of behaviour or emotion) apparently originating in unconscious needs or desires and unaffected by objective reasoning:the primitive responses we share with many animals
of or denoting a simple, naive style of art that deliberately rejects sophisticated artistic techniques: the Fauves saw primitive art as a liberating force
2 very basic or unsophisticated in terms of comfort, convenience, or efficiency:the accommodation at the camp was a bit primitive
3 not developed or derived from anything else:primitive material of the universe
Linguistics denoting a word, base, or root from which another is historically derived.
Mathematics (of an algebraic or geometric expression) from which another is derived, or which is not itself derived from another.
4 Biology (of a part or structure) in the first or early stage of formation or growth; rudimentary. See also primitive streak.
noun
1a person belonging to a preliterate, non-industrial society: reports of travellers and missionaries described contemporary primitives
2a pre-Renaissance painter, or one who imitates the pre-Renaissance style.
an artist deliberately employing a simple, naive style: the Catalan primitives
a painting by a primitive artist, or an object in a primitive style: Santa Fe style antiques and Mexican primitives Ohio primitives such as treenware utensils
3 Linguistics a word, base, or root from which another is historically derived.
Mathematics an algebraic or geometric expression from which another is derived; a curve of which another is the polar or reciprocal.
Computing any of a set of basic geometric shapes which may be generated in computer graphics: the program includes a complete set of drawing primitives
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense 'original, not derivative'): from Old French primitif, -ive, from Latin primitivus 'first of its kind', from primus 'first'
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