Gagarin was convinced that Titov would be the one chosen.

曾有人明确告诉加加林被选上的肯定会是蒂托夫。

When word got to Nikita Khrushchev - himself the son of peasants - that the choice had come down to a poor boy from the sticks, and a middle class intellectual, he supposedly told Korolev to forget Titov.

赫鲁晓夫本身就是农民的儿子，当他得知要从一个来自乡下的穷孩子和一个中产阶级知识分子里进行选择时，(据说)他告诉科洛夫忘掉铁托夫。