If a child of very quirt, home-loving parents and grandparents should display the love of travel and adventure that had characterized a sea-captain ancestor, it would be called a case of atavism.

如果母母都是很安静而好家居的，孩子表现一位当过船长的先的特点，好旅行，就可以说是一个隔代遗传的例子。