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

这是字的另一种形式；赋予生命的字！

Lo, the scarlet letter which Hester wears!

瞧，海丝特戴的字！

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

我的眼睛紧盯着那古老的字，不愿移开视线。

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

他要你再看看海丝特的字！

The story of the scarlet letter grew into legend.

字的故事为传奇。

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

在之前这段时期，会计记录都是用手写的，字代表亏损，黑字代表盈利。

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， 在字的折磨下，受那么多的苦难， 还不悔改吗？

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，胸前的字还燃烧着！

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墨水写的单词字那样，就会发生这种情况。

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，字的佩戴者消，珠儿也跟着消。

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， 在你的字这样的重负之下。

So speaking, she undid the clasp that fastened the scarlet letter, and, taking it from her bosom, threw it to a distance among the withered leaves.

说着，她解下系着字的扣子， 从怀里拿出来， 丢到远方的枯叶间。

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《字》要强。

" Look your last on the scarlet letter and its wearer! " —the people's victim and life-long bond-slave, as they fancied her, might say to them.

“看看你的最后一个字和它的佩戴者！” ——人民的受害者和终生的奴隶，正如他们想象的那样，可能会对他们说。

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，有一个字——与海丝特·白兰 (Hester Prynne) 佩戴的字非常相似——印在肉上。

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.

她拿一把这些， 沿着装饰母性胸膛的字排列，毛边，就像它们的本性一样，顽强地粘在上面。

Neither, by their report, had his dying words acknowledged, nor even remotely implied, any, the slightest connection, on his part, with the guilt for which Hester Prynne had so long worn the scarlet letter.

根据他们的报告，他临终前的话没有得到承认，甚至也没有暗示，就他而言，与海丝特·白兰长期以来一直戴着字的罪行有任何、丝毫的联系。

Closely following the jailer into the dismal apartment, appeared that individual, of singular aspect whose presence in the crowd had been of such deep interest to the wearer of the scarlet letter.

紧跟着狱卒走进阴森森的公寓， 出现一个人，他在人群中的出现引起字佩戴者的极大兴趣。

She assumed a freedom of speculation, then common enough on the other side of the Atlantic, but which our forefathers, had they known of it, would have held to be a deadlier crime than that stigmatized by the scarlet letter.

她承担投机的自由，当时在大西洋的另一边很普遍，但我们的祖先， 如果他们知道的话，会认为这是一种比字所污名化的罪行更致命的罪行。