n part of a film, play, etc that shows a scene earlier in time than the main story （电影的）闪回, 闪回镜头; （戏剧、小说等的）倒叙, 倒叙情节
*The events that led up to the murder were shown in a series of flashbacks. 酿成谋杀案的各个环节是通过一系列倒叙手法来表现的.

n
[U and C]
a scene in a film, play, book etc that shows something that happened before that point in the story
　The events of the hero's childhood are shown as a series of flashbacks.
[C]
a sudden very clear memory of something that happened to you in the past
　Eaton still has flashbacks of the crash.
[C]
an occasion when someone has the same bad feeling that they had when they took an illegal drug in the past
　Many users of this drug experience flashbacks.
[C]technical
a burning gas or liquid that moves back into a tube or container