This slim volume is packed with tips to help wage slaves as well as lottery winners get the most “happiness bang for your buck”.

无论你是工资的仆，还是彩票的幸运儿，这本薄薄的册子都能最大化让你的荷包为你带来幸福。

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，接癌症故事教会我们件事：不要懦弱、会模仿他人、胆小的仆和群居动物。

To Nature, therefore, we turn as to the oldest and most influential teacher of our race; from one point of view once our task master, now our servant; from another point of view, our constant friend, instructor and inspirer.

因此，我们求助于自然就好像求助于我们人类最年长最有影响力的老师。从某观点来看，自然曾是我们的监工，现在却是我们的仆。但从另观点来看，自然直是我们的朋友、教导者和启发者。

They only had one aim in life: to be fighting fit, ready to crush any uprising by their slaves, and to protect themselves from the surrounding peoples still at liberty.

为战斗而变强壮，准备镇压他们仆发动的任何起义，提防四周尚还自由的各民族。

Among the changes: The term " Oriental" was removed, a description of a Black servant's race was cut and references to Nubian people were taken out.

删掉了Oriental（东方）词，删掉了对黑人仆的种族的描述，提到努比亚人的部分也删掉了。

13 Yes, both the houseborn slaves and those acquired with money must be circumcised. Thus my covenant shall be in your flesh as an everlasting pact.

13 凡在你家中生的，和你用钱买来的仆，都该受割损。这样，我的约刻在你们肉体上作为永久的约。

She had never struck a slave in all her life, but now she slapped the black cheek with all the force in her tired arm.

她有生以来还没有打过仆，可此刻她使出了乏手臂的全部力气在百里茜的黑脸上抽了记耳光。

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，认为他们是仆，社会地位让他们无路可寻，能边洗餐盘边唱悲歌。

The King's sudden decision shocked his servants, but they had no choice but to obey him.

国王当下出的决定震惊了他的仆，但是他们无能为力能遵命。

From the stables, men were streaming out on horseback, negro servants riding hard behind their masters. The Munroe boys tore past waving their hats, and the Fontaines and Calverts went down the road yelling.

从马棚边，男人们正沿着马川流不息地出来，黑人仆紧跟在后，芒罗家的小伙子们路挥着帽子飞奔而过，方丹家和卡弗特家的已经喊叫着沿大路跑去了。

Had they not lived in fear – fear of their own slaves – the Spartans might never have become so warlike and brave.

要不是斯巴达人生活在害怕之中——害怕他们自己的仆——斯巴达人也许不会变得如此好战和勇敢。

Pork, the only trained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack and careless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode of living.

波克是唯受过训练和胜任的黑人管家，他现在负责管理所有的仆，但是几年来，在杰拉尔德遇事乐呵呵的生活作风影响下，也变得怠惰和漫不经心了。

Fantastic, now she's possessed and a thrall in the service of Valak.

太棒了，现在她被附身了，成了瓦拉克的仆。

He was a loyal slave to the emperor.

他对皇帝忠心耿耿，是皇帝的忠实仆。

Tjalfi, Thor's human slave, a farmer's son.

塔尔菲，索尔的人类仆，农夫之子。

Time used to be my master, until I made it my slave.

时间曾是我的主人，直到我把它变成了我的仆。

But she idolized him, and was proud to be his bond-servant.

但她崇拜他， 以他的仆为荣。

Bestowing a word of promise here and a smile there, a whisper on one happy slave and a wave of the hand on another, Monsignor affably passed through his rooms to the remote region of the Circumference of Truth.

大人时而对这里的句承诺， 时而对里的微笑，对幸运的仆悄声说句什么， 又对另仆挥手示意，亲切地穿过了他的房间， 来到“真理边缘” 的遥远领地。

They got rid of a slave mentality, a barely get by mindset, and they started seeing themselves as the head and not the tail, as above and not beneath.

他们摆脱了仆心态，摆脱了勉强维持生计的思维模式，开始把自己看作是领先者而非跟随者，是居上者而非居下者。

The Roman historian Cato wrote in his Guide to Slave Ownership that slaves should merely be given flour to make bread.

罗马历史学家凯托在他的《仆管理指南》中写道，隶需给予面粉来制作面包即可。