" The Scarlet Letter" is so hard.

——《红字》太难了。

Lo, the scarlet letter which Hester wears!

瞧，海丝特戴红字！

If I could brand them with a scarlet letter on their forehead, I would, because I don't want any woman hurt like that again.

“我是能在他们额头上烙一个红字，我就烙，因为我不想让其他女性也受到那样伤害。”

Our restaurant eviction is hardly a scarlet letter.

我们被餐馆驱逐还算不上什么大事。

For many years, I felt that no matter what I accomplished professionally, it paled in comparison to the scarlet letter D stitched on my chest.

之后很多年里，我都感到胸口上赫然贴着" 离异" 标签，相形之下，事业上取何成就都显黯然失色。

He bids you look again at Hester's scarlet letter!

他你再看看海丝特红字！

My eyes fastened themselves upon the old scarlet letter, and would not be turned aside.

我紧盯着那古老红字，不愿移开视线。

Even if I have to wear a scarlet letter for something I didn't do?

即使我去背一个没来由黑锅吗？

The story of the scarlet letter grew into legend.

红字故事逐渐成为传奇。

So said Hester Prynne, and glanced her sad eyes downward at the scarlet letter.

海丝特·白兰如此说道，她悲伤向下看了一红字。

In a new place, where she can start again, Ethel has far more chance of happiness than in re-enacting her own version of The Scarlet Letter in Downton.

如果让艾瑟尔去一个新地方重新开始，她更可能找到幸福，总比在唐顿上演她自己《红字》强。

Meanwhile, Hester Prynne was standing beside the scaffold of the pillory, with the scarlet letter still burning on her breast!

与此同时，海丝特·白兰站在手铐脚手架旁，胸前红字还燃烧着！

The scarlet letter had not done its office.

红字还没有发挥作用。

But, in no long time after the physician's death, the wearer of the scarlet letter disappeared, and Pearl along with her.

但是， 在医生死后不久，红字佩戴者消失了，珠儿也跟着消失了。

But in good earnest now, mother dear, what does this scarlet letter mean?

但是，亲爱妈妈，现在是认真，这个红字是什么意思？

It was the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life!

这是红字另一种形式；赋予生命红字！

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.

红字是她进入其他女人不敢涉足领域通行证。

If they were resolute to accost her, she laid her finger on the scarlet letter, and passed on.

如果他们下定决心和她搭话，她就把手指放在红字上，然后就走了。

In the absorbing contemplation of the scarlet letter, I had hitherto neglected to examine a small roll of dingy paper, around which it had been twisted.

迄今为止，我全神贯注地凝视着红字，却忽略了检查一小卷脏兮兮纸，纸卷绕着它扭曲了。

Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom!

海丝特，你有幸把红字公然戴在胸前！