" The Scarlet Letter" is so hard.

——《红字》太难了。

The scarlet letter burned on Hester Prynne's bosom.

红字在海丝特·白兰的胸前燃烧。

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。

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

这是红字的另一种形式；赋予生命的红字！

" I have left thee to the scarlet letter, " replied Roger Chillingworth.

“我把你留给了红字， ” 罗杰齐灵渥斯回答道。

Lo, the scarlet letter which Hester wears!

瞧，海丝特戴的红字！

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" 的标签，相形之下，事业上取得的任何成就都显得黯然失色。

The scarlet letter had not done its office.

红字还没有发挥作用。

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

海丝特·白兰如此说道，她悲伤的眼睛向下看了一眼红字。

The story of the scarlet letter grew into legend.

红字的故事逐渐成为传奇。

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的领域的通行证。

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之谜徘徊，这似乎是她与生俱来的品质。

He made a step nigher, and discovered the scarlet letter.

他走近一步，发现了红字。

Here, seen only by his eyes, the scarlet letter need not burn into the bosom of the fallen woman!

在这里，仅凭他的眼睛，红字不必燃烧在堕落女人的怀抱中！

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，胸前的红字还燃烧着！

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，红字的佩戴者消失了，珠儿也跟着消失了。

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！

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

如果他们下定决心要和她搭话，她就把手指放在红字上，然后就走了。

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，她解下系着红字的扣子， 从怀里拿出来， 丢到远方的枯叶间。

See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a million-fold the power of retribution for my sin?

君不见，她是红字，唯有被爱，才拥有百万倍的报应之力？