Of course a tramp is not a nomadic atavism-one might as well say that a commercialtraveller is an atavism.
流浪汉当然不是游牧性格的隔代遗传现象——还不如说旅行推销员是隔代遗传的呢。
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John Thomas Illingworth was the commercialtraveller for Samuel the First, and had been for some 10 years at Samuel's death, himself then aged 35 years.