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.

生苦短，一个接一个癌症故事只教会我们一件事：不要做一个懦弱、只会模仿他、胆小的奴仆和群居动物。

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，侍者递给福克一份还没有裁的《泰晤士报》。于是他就用熟练的双手，按版裁，是一件挺麻烦的事，但从他的动作可以说明他已经是驾轻就熟习以为常了。

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，时 Coignard 先生给了那个家伙一个屁股，以至于他在金融家旁边滚进了河里。

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.

我们曾是总督晚宴的客， 但距离和礼节使我们分， 直到后来戴头巾的仆把帽子递给我们。