Back in this time period accounting records were handwritten, red ink indicating a loss, and black ink a profit.

在之前这段，计记录都是用手写的，红字代表亏损，黑字代表盈利。

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

我曾遭遇过类似被贴红字标签的对待。

That occurs when multiple pieces of information complement each other or work together—like when we read the word red in red ink.

当多条信息互为补充或者像我们读用红墨水写的单词红字那样，就发生这种情况。

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·普林尼身烙耻辱的红字A的人，至少是把它缝在她的衣服的， 对吧？

Had seven long years, under the torture of the scarlet letter, inflicted so much of misery, and wrought out no repentance?

难道漫长的七年， 在红字的折磨下，受了那么多的苦难， 还不悔改吗？

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之下。

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，总比在唐顿演她自己的《红字》要强。

Most of the spectators testified to having seen, on the breast of the unhappy minister, a SCARLET LETTER-the very semblance of that worn by Hester Prynne—imprinted in the flesh.

大多数观众作证说， 在这位不幸的牧师的胸前，有一个红字——与海丝特·白兰 (Hester Prynne) 佩戴的红字非常相似——印在肉。

Taking a handful of these, she arranged them along the lines of the scarlet letter that decorated the maternal bosom, to which the burrs, as their nature was, tenaciously adhered.

她拿了一把这些， 沿着装饰母性胸膛的红字排列，毛边，就像它们的本性一样，顽强地粘在面。