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。

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。