They reiterated that they were house niggers, not field hands.

他们反复强调自己是干家务的黑人，不是干田间活的。

She understood such niceties and realized the wide gap between the duties of a field hand and those of a house nigger.

她为人精细，懂得干大田活和干家务活的黑人之间的巨大区别呢。

So, Ellen, no longer Robillard, turned her back on Savannah, never to see it again, and with a middle-aged husband, Mammy, and twenty " house niggers" journeyed toward Tara.

就这样，爱伦（已不再姓罗毕拉德）离开萨凡纳，她随同一位中年丈夫，带着嬷嬷和二十个黑人家奴，动身到塔拉去了。

But if she was gentle the darkies would sit in the kitchen all day, talking endlessly about the good old days when a house nigger wasn't supposed to do a field hand's work.

可是她一和平，那些黑人就会整天坐在厨房里闲聊，谈过去的好光景，说那时干家务活的黑人不作兴下大田，等等。

" Mist' Gerald, " said Pork, gratefully rolling up the shirt as Gerald fumed, " whut you needs is a wife, and a wife whut has got plen'y of house niggers" . Gerald upbraided Pork for his impertinence, but he knew that he was right.

" 杰拉尔德先生，" 波克眼看杰拉尔德生气了，便讨好地对他说，一面将那件衬衫卷起来，" 你现在缺少的是一位太太，一位能带来许多家仆的太太。" 杰拉尔德责骂波克的无礼，但他知道他是对的。