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我们件事：不要做个懦弱、只会模仿他人、胆小的奴仆和群居动。

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，侍者递给福克份还没有裁开的《泰晤士报》。于是他就用熟练的双手，按版裁开，这原是件麻烦的事，但从他的动作可以说明他已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，其中个魁梧的家伙试图抓住他，这时 Coignard 先生给了那个家伙个屁股，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人， 但距离和礼节使我们分开， 直到后来戴头巾的仆人把帽子递给我们。