2. Of course a tramp is not a nomadic atavism-one might as well say that a commercial traveller 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。
3. John Thomas Illingworth was the commercial traveller for Samuel the First, and had been for some 10 years at Samuel's death, himself then aged 35 years. 约翰托马斯伊尔林格沃斯是一个商业旅行者第一塞缪尔,并已为约10年,塞缪尔的死亡,然后自己35岁。