1[countableC, uncountableU]A a scene in a film, play, book etc that shows something that happened before that point in the story 〔电影的〕闪回镜头;〔戏剧的〕闪回场景;〔书中的〕倒叙
The events of the hero’s childhood are shown as a series of flashbacks.
主人公童年的一些事情用一连串闪回镜头展现出来。
2[countableC]REMEMBER a sudden very clearmemory of something that happened to you in the past 〔往事的〕闪回,突然重现
Eaton still has flashbacks of the crash.
伊顿脑海中依然时常闪过车祸的情景。
3[countableC] an occasion when someone has the same bad feeling that they had when they took an illegaldrug in the past 〔吸毒后的〕药效幻觉重现
Many users of this drug experience flashbacks.
许多吸食这种毒品的人都会经历药效幻觉的重现。
4.[countableC] technicalHC a burninggas or liquid that moves back into a tube or container 火舌回闪,回火〔指燃烧的气体或液体循管道向气瓶或油罐退回〕
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flashback• A constantmotif is a flashback to a field of wheat, interposed suddenly and incongruously in various scenes.• Many users of this drug experience chronicdepression and flashbacks.• In the middle, we get an extendedflashback of the four as girls in the summer of 1970.• I have had my first flashback.• Only vaguely, in one or two frozenflashback memories, could he recall his father.• We weave the old show in so well with the flashbacks.
has flashbacks• Amado has flashbacks to his experiences in Vietnam.• He says approachingbends he's worried because he has flashbacks of some one losing control and crashing into him.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + FLASHBACK | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤sudden突然的閃回場景VERB + FLASHBACK➤get, have倒敍;閃回PREPOSITION➤in (a) flashback以倒敍形式◇The story is told in flashback.這個故事採用倒敍法講述。➤flashback to突然重現◇I had a sudden flashback to the time immediately after the war.我的思緒突然閃回到戰爭剛結束的那段時間。