This anger, I think, is atavistic.

我觉得，这怒气是一种返祖现象。

Many of those present felt this atavistic fear.

在场的那些人中，很多都感到这种隔代遗传的恐惧。

Does cancer have much dreariness? Can atavistic?

癌有多可怕？会不会隔代遗传呢？

In other words, everything about poetry is atavistic.

换句话说，诗歌的一切，都是复古的。

It would be wrong to interpret them as atavistic remnants.

把它们解释为老观念的残余，是错误的。