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的《红字》要强。

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.

后很多年里，我都感到胸口上赫然贴着" 离异" 的标签，相形，业上取的任何成就都显黯然失色。

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.

“我要是能在他们的额头上烙一个红字，我就烙，因为我不想让其他女性也受到那样的伤害。”

" The Scarlet Letter" is so hard.

——《红字》太难了。

There's been the scarlet letter kind of attitude about me.

我曾遇过类似被贴上红字标签的对待。

It's like I've worn the scarlet letter, really.

就像我身上真的带着那块红字一样。

And all of a sudden it's like walking around with a scarlet letter of like, look at the vegetarian and that's getting exhausting as well.

突然间，这就像带着一个醒目的标志四处走动， 仿佛在说：“看，这是个素食者。 ” 这种感觉也人疲惫不堪。

And I think that the story itself was so compelling that Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote The Scarlet Letter, patterned Hester Prynne after Sarah Maria Cornell.

我认为这个故本身非常引人入胜，以至于写了《红字书》的纳撒尼尔·霍桑，都是以莎拉·玛丽亚·康奈尔为原型塑造了赫斯特·普林这个角色。

If everybody in society, if you cheated on your taxes, you had to wear a scarlet letter, that's not, I mean, that's fine.

如果社会中的每个人， 如果你逃税，就必须佩戴一个红色字母标志，我是说， 那样也行。

These are the people who branded Hester Prynne with the Scarlet Letter, at least put it on her clothing, right?

这些人就是给赫斯特·普林尼身上烙上耻辱的红字A的人，至少是把它缝在她的衣服上的， 对吧？

Pearl's inevitable tendency to hover about the enigma of the scarlet letter seemed an innate quality of her being.

珀尔不可避免地倾向于围绕红字谜徘徊，这似乎是她与生俱来的品质。

The Scarlet Letter was an immediate success, becoming one of the first mass-produced books in American history.

《红字》立即获了成功，成为美国历史上首批大规模生产的书籍一。

So you'd think, of course, like, I mean, they're famous for the Scarlet Letter.

所以你会想，当然，我是说，他们因为《红字》而出名。

I wanted it off my Scarlet letter, you know what I mean?

我想把它从我的耻辱柱上抹去，你知道我的意思吗？

It is the women in the Scarlet Letter who are the most vicious.

是《红字书》中的女性最恶毒。

For, Hester, his spirit lacked the strength that could have borne up, as thine has, beneath a burden like thy scarlet letter.

因为，海丝特，他的精神缺乏能够承受的力量，就像你的一样， 在你的红字这样的重负。

When I go other places, I'm like, oh, I'm not, I don't have a scarlet letter on.

当我去其他地方时，感觉就像，哦，我没有，我没有被贴上耻辱的标签。

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

但是，亲爱的妈妈，现在是认真的，这个红字是什么意思？

And that's why I go back to the Scarlet Letter and Hester Prynne.

而这就是为什么我回到《红字书》和赫斯特·普林妮的故。

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

即使我要去背一个没来由的黑锅吗？