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.
如果父母及祖父母都是很安静而好家居的,孩子表了一位当过船长的祖先的特点,好旅行探险,这就可以说是一个隔遗传的例子。