剑桥高阶英汉双解词典 - flashback collapse

flashback
/'flæʃ.bæk/
noun
[C or U]
* a short part of a film, story or play that goes back to events in the past
（电影、故事或戏剧的）闪回，倒叙，倒叙片段

1. The novel began with a flashback to the hero's experiences in the war.
小说开头以倒叙的手法描写了主人翁在战争中的经历。

[C usually plural]
* a sudden, clear memory of a past event or time, usually one that was bad
（尤指不愉快往事的）闪回

1. I kept having flashbacks of her lying there bleeding.
我的脑海里不断闪现出她躺在那里流着血的情景。

柯林斯COBUILD高阶英汉双解学习词典 - flashback collapse

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1.N-COUNT 可数名词(电影、小说、戏剧中的)闪回，倒叙 In a film, novel, or play, a flashback is a scene that returns to events in the past.

【搭配模式】：oft N to n

  • There is even a flashback to the murder itself.

    甚至有一段关于谋杀本身的闪回。

2.N-COUNT 可数名词(往事的)突然重现，闪回，再现 If you have a flashback to a past experience, you have a sudden and very clear memory of it.

【搭配模式】：oft N to n

  • He has recurring flashbacks to the night his friends died.

    他反复想起朋友们死去的那个夜晚的情形。

牛津高阶英汉双解 第7版 - flashback collapse

flashback
flash·back / 5flAFbAk / noun1. [C, U] a part of a film / movie, play, etc. that shows a scene that happened earlier in time than the main story
   (电影或戏剧的)闪回,倒敍,倒敍片段:
   The events that led up to the murder were shown in a series of flashbacks.
   通过一系列倒敍展现出了导致谋杀的各个情节。
   The reader is told the story in flashback.
   故事是以倒敍手法向读者讲述的。
2. [C] a sudden, very clear, strong memory of sth that happened in the past that is so real you feel that you are living through the experience again
   (往事的)闪回

牛津搭配语词典 第2版 - flashback collapse

flashback noun

• ADJECTIVE sudden

• VERB + FLASHBACK get, have

• PREPOSITION in (a) ~ The story is told in ~. | ~ to I had a sudden ~ to the time immediately after the war.

词源记忆 - flashback collapse

flashback
  1903, in reference to fires in engines or furnaces, from flash + back (adj.). Movie plot device sense is from 1916. The hallucinogenic drug sense is attested in psychological literature from 1970, which means probably hippies were using it a few years before.