throw back

英 [θrəʊ bæk]

美 [θroʊ bæk]

翻旧账; 揭疮疤; 不得不动用，只好依靠（自己的能力或资源）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 翻旧账;揭疮疤
  If youthrowsomethingback ata person, you remind them of something bad they did in the past, in order to upset them.
  1. I should never have told you that. I knew you'd throw it back at me.
     我压根儿就不该把那件事告诉你，我就知道你会翻我的老账的。
• PHRASAL VERB 不得不动用，只好依靠(自己的能力或资源)
  If someoneis thrown back ontheir own powers or resources, they have to use them, because there is nothing else they can use.
  1. We are constantly thrown back on our own resources.
     我们总是不得不自谋出路。

英英释义

verb

• throw back with a quick, light motion
  1. She tossed back her head
  Synonym:toss back

双语例句

• I'll throw something back at you.
  我要扔回去给你。
• Yandry said we ought to throw you back, but the lad forbade it.
  杨恩德里认为我们把你扔回去比较好，但是男孩没让。
• Let me do it once more; I can throw it back.
  让我再做一个，我可以扔回来。
• I like to throw back what I catch.
  我喜欢把钓到的鱼放回去。
• If my shoemaker turn me out an excellent pair of boots, and I, in some mood of cantankerous unreason, throw them back upon his hands, the man has just cause of complaint.
  假如我的鞋匠给我做出一双极好的靴子，而我却因为心情不好，缺乏理性，猛地把它们扔到他手上，那么他是有正当理由抱怨的。
• ( of a surface) throw back ( light, heat, sound)
  （指物体表面）反射（光、热、声）
• I love that it's kind of a throw back to anthemic pop songs of the80's.
  我喜欢这种带回到80年代的流行歌曲的类型。
• And then throw it back?
  却又把它扔了回去？
• The portable Web-deployable widgets, portlets or other elements that are built on top of Adobe Air, Google Gears or even ( big throw back) a Java applet.
  门户化的网页&可部署的widget，portlets或是其它构建在AdobeAir、GoogleGears或甚至是（重出江湖的）javaapplet之上的元素。
• When life throws you stones, throw them back!
  当生活扔给你块儿石头，你再扔回去。