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们，认为他们是奴仆，社会地位让他们无路可寻，只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，侍者递给份还没有裁开的《泰晤士报》。于是他就用熟练的双手，按版裁开，这原是件挺麻的事，但从他的动作可以明他已经是驾轻就熟习以为常了。

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

被位华丽的仆人接纳，并被带到间豪华的房间里， 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.

们曾是总督晚宴的客人， 但距离和礼节使们分开， 直到后来戴头巾的仆人把帽子递给们。

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，个接个癌症故事只教会们件事：不要做个懦弱、只会模仿他人、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" !

“你不记得了吗？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，递给盘蛋糕… … 还有这样的蛋糕”！