Scorned by their peers as flunkeys, they felt constrained by their position from doing much more than sing rudely over the washing-up.

同阶层的工人蔑视他，认为他是奴仆，社会地位让他无路，能边洗餐盘边唱悲歌。

A flunkey handed him an uncut Times, which he proceeded to cut with a skill which betrayed familiarity with this delicate operation.

在大客厅里，侍者递福克一份还没有裁开的《泰晤士报》。于是他就用熟练的双手，按版裁开，这原是一件挺麻烦的事，但从他的动作以说明他已经是驾轻就熟习以为常。

I was admitted by a gorgeous flunkey, and shown into a sumptuous room where a couple of elderly gentlemen were sitting.

被一位华丽的仆人接纳，并被带到一间豪华的房间里， 里面坐着几位年长的绅士。

We had been guests at a Viceregal dinner party, but distance and ceremonial kept us apart until the turbaned flunkeys handed us our hats afterwards.

曾是总督晚宴的客人， 但距离和礼节使分开， 直到后来戴头巾的仆人把帽子递。

" Ah! Ah! Ah! Do you know who knocks? It is M. de la Gueritude with his full-bottomed periwig and two big flunkeys carrying lighted torches" .

“啊！啊！啊！你知道谁在敲门吗？是德·拉·古里图德先生，他戴着一顶长长的假发，还有两个拿着点燃的火把的大仆人。”

We are going to be dead pretty soon and all those cancer stories point us in one direction only: towards the need to stop being a craven, imitative, second hand timid flunkey and herd-animal.

人生苦短，一个接一个癌症故事教会一件事：不要做一个懦弱、会模仿他人、胆小的奴仆和群居动物。

" Don't you recollect me? Why, think of that famous luncheon in the Villa Dupont! ... You yourself, you old flunkey, handed me the plate of cakes ... and such cakes" !

“你不记得吗？为什么，想想杜邦别墅那次著名的午餐！… … 你自己，你这个老奴才，递一盘蛋糕… … 还有这样的蛋糕”！

Both the flunkeys wanted to throw themselves on the murderer, and one of them, a burly fellow, tried to grasp him, when M. Coignard gave the fellow such a butt that he rolled in the stream beside the financier.

两个走狗都想扑向凶手，其中一个魁梧的家伙试图抓住他，这时 Coignard 先生那个家伙一个屁股，以至于他在金融家旁边滚进河里。