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a flashback to sth
用于文学、影视等叙事作品，指打乱时间线、回到过去的场景。
The film opens with a flashback to the protagonist's first meeting with his wife.
电影以主人公与妻子初次见面的闪回开场。
倒叙；闪回
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倒叙；闪回
a scene in a film, book, or play that shows an earlier event, interrupting the main story's chronological order
The film opens with a flashback to the protagonist's first meeting with his wife.
电影以主人公与妻子初次见面的闪回开场。
一种戏剧手法,将较早的事件插入叙事正常的时序中。
A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
对过去创伤的生动心理意象,或创伤正在当下发生的感觉,尤其是反复出现的那种。
A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
唤起旧记忆的事物；怀旧之物。
Something that evokes old memories; a throwback.
致幻药物效应的类似复发。
A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
The old song gave me a sudden flashback to my first year at university.
那首老歌让我突然想起了大学一年级的情景。
She had a flashback of the day her family moved to this city.
她猛地回想起一家人搬来这座城市的那个日子。
This childhood photo triggers a flashback to hot summer afternoons in the garden.
这张童年照片唤起了一段在花园里度过炎热午后的回忆。
用于文学、影视等叙事作品，指打乱时间线、回到过去的场景。
The film opens with a flashback to the protagonist's first meeting with his wife.
电影以主人公与妻子初次见面的闪回开场。
多指对痛苦往事的不自主重现，也可指药物引起的往事闪回。
He had a flashback to the accident and felt his heart race.
他突然出现了对那场事故的闪回，感到心跳加速。
也可用单数形式：The story is told in flashback。
Much of the novel is told in flashbacks.
小说的大部分内容是通过倒叙讲述的。
Not this
I had flashback to my childhood when I saw the old house.
Use this
I had a flashback to my childhood when I saw the old house.
flashback 是可数名词，单数形式前需要加不定冠词 a；受汉语“我有了闪回”缺少量词的影响，学习者容易漏掉冠词。
Not this
I have a happy flashback of our trip to Beijing.
Use this
I have a happy memory of our trip to Beijing.
flashback 指突然、生动、常不由自主的往事重现，通常带有痛苦或药物幻觉色彩；普通的美好回忆应用 memory。受汉语“回忆”的影响，学习者容易把 flashback 泛用。
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倒叙场景；闪回镜头
The director added a flashback scene to explain the character's motive.
导演加了一个倒叙场景来解释这个角色的动机。
出现闪回；突然忆起往事
He had a flashback of his first day at school while walking past the building.
走过那栋楼时，他突然忆起上学第一天的情景。
引发闪回
The smell of chlorine triggered a flashback to the swimming pool accident.
氯气的气味引发了那次泳池事故的闪回。
对……的闪回；让人想起……的过往
That song is a flashback to my college days.
那首歌让我想起了我的大学时光。
药物引起的闪回
He suffered a drug-induced flashback years after taking the substance.
他在服用该物质多年后出现了一次药物引起的闪回。
反复出现闪回；深受闪回之苦
Many veterans suffer flashbacks of the war long after it ends.
许多退伍军人在战争结束很久后仍会反复出现战争闪回。
突然清晰地回忆起；恍如重回过去
When I smelled the old perfume, I had a flashback to my childhood.
当我闻到那瓶旧香水时，我恍如回到了童年。
让人联想到；仿佛是……的再现
The band's look is a flashback to the 1990s.
这支乐队的外形仿佛是20世纪90年代的再现。
引发（痛苦的）闪回
Certain sounds can trigger a flashback for people with PTSD.
某些声音会引发创伤后应激障碍患者的闪回。
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Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
联想记忆：flash 闪光 + back 回，记忆像闪光般瞬间跳回过去，电影中就是倒叙。
语域：neutral 常见场景：film and literary analysis、psychology and everyday conversation 该词通常用于影视、文学中的倒叙手法，也可以指脑海中突然重现的往事或体验；在日常口语和较正式的表达中都比较常见，语气中性。
drawback、feedback、playback、payback、back 都以 -back 结尾，读 /bæk/，与 flashback 中的 back 同音；flash 读 /flæʃ/，与 flashback 中的 flash 同音。注意 black 虽以 -ack 结尾，却读 /blæk/，bake 读 /beɪk/，都不是 /bæk/。
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