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.

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。从某个观点来看，自然曾是我们的监工，现却是我们的奴仆。但从另一个观点来看，自然一直是我们的朋友、教导者和启发者。

I have overseen lots of projects in our home.

我给自己家很多工程当过监工。

I looked at it again, and I said: 'Who would have thought that the overseer of my plantation on the peninsula, to whom I lent two hundred francs, had genius?

我又仔细看了看。我说：‘谁想得到，我的半岛上的种植园里的一个监工，一个向我借过两百法郎的人，居然是个伟大天才。

And then Arnie, that was his name, he went to the head of the company and told him some lies about me, and he got the job.

然后阿尔尼，叫阿尔尼，就去公司老板那儿，面前诋毁我，然后就当上了监工。

But the decline of US power, emergence of alternative lenders, and the IMF's reputation as a domineering taskmaster has left it an anomalous position.

不过，美国实力的衰落、其贷款机构的出现，以及该组织“霸道监工”的名声，使其处于一个反常的位置。

Elias was a tough workmaster and did not approve of Walt trying to carve out time to do homework or even attend school.

埃利亚斯是个严厉的监工，不赞成华特挤出时间做作业甚至上学。

He's a good fellow, Eph Todd, mused the overseer as he drove away, but I never heard of his having any money.

是个好人，伊夫·托德，当开车离开时，监工沉思着，但我从来有听说过有钱。

All thirty-five women in this cooperative agree that they prefer working without a boss looking over their shoulder.

这家合作社的35位妇女都赞同，们更愿有老板监工的情况下工作。

Scarlett knew their souls were writhing in helpless rage at being under obligations to their Yankee overseer.

思嘉知道，们一想到居然自己得依靠这个北方佬监工，就压不住满腔怒火，可又毫无办法。

Right. Well, today we have a nice little distraction courtesy of slave driver, Elena. Hello, Elena.

也是。不过托万恶的监工埃琳娜的福，今天可以暂且转移下注力。你好，埃琳娜。

A supervisor's job came up, and, uh, we were both angling for it.

招监工的时候，我们都想当上监工。

And leaving behind the tradition of having a boss is a difficult transition for Mexican women who are accustomed from childhood to responding to male authority figures.

摒弃老板监工的传统是墨西哥妇女的一个艰难转变，为她们从童年时代起就已经习惯了接受男性权威的形象。

Now that the four boys were gone, the house burned and the family cramped in the overseer's cottage, she could not bring herself to go.

既然那四个小伙子都不了，房子也给烧毁了，一家人挤监工的小屋里，她还有什么兴致去看呢。

I gave him his first job. I had a plantation on the peninsula, and I wanted a white overseer.

的头一个工作就是我给的。我半岛上有一个种植园，需要一个白人监工。

I can't imagine that he was a very satisfactory overseer, I said, smiling.

“我想不是一个令人满的监工。”我笑着说。

There, Ellen sat before her tall secretary each morning, keeping the accounts of the plantation and listening to the reports of Jonas Wilkerson, the overseer.

那儿，爱伦每天早晨坐高高的写字台前写着农场的账目，听着监工乔纳斯·威尔克森的报告。

Cade liked their own overseer Jonas Wilkerson, and she liked him even less now, as he sauntered forward and greeted her like an equal.

思嘉对于希尔顿从来不比对自己家的监工乔纳斯·威尔克森更有好感，现就更不喜欢了。为走上前来跟她打招呼时，竟然像个平辈人似的一点尊敬的样子。

Scarlett was so surprised at the sight of their former overseer driving so fine a rig and in so splendid a greatcoat she could not for a moment believe her eyes.

思嘉看见们家这位监工居然坐上了这么漂亮的马车，穿上了这么精致的大衣，不觉大吃一惊，几乎不相信自己的眼睛。

Fairhill, the Tarleton home, was burned to the foundations, and Mrs. Tarleton and the four girls were existing in the overseer's house.

塔尔顿家所的费尔希尔农场被烧个精光，现塔尔顿太太和四个姑娘只得住监工的屋里。

If it hadn't been for the Slatterys — if it hadn't been for that nasty Emmie who'd had a bastard brat by their overseer — Ellen wouldn't have died.

要不是为了那个淫猥的埃米（她跟们的监工养了个私生子），爱伦是不会死的！