" The Scarlet Letter" is so hard.

——《字》太难了。

The scarlet letter had not done its office.

字还没有发挥作用。

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个字，我就，因为我不想让其他女性也受到那样的伤害。”

Our restaurant eviction is hardly a scarlet letter.

我们被餐馆驱逐还算不什么大事。

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，我感到胸口赫然贴着" 离异" 的标签，相形之下，事业取得的任何成就显得黯然失色。

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

字是她进入其他女人不敢涉足的领域的通行证。

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

即使我要去背个没来由的黑锅吗？

Lo, the scarlet letter which Hester wears!

瞧，海丝特戴的字！

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，这个字是什么？

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

这是字的另种形式；赋予生命的字！

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

他要你再看看海丝特的字！

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《字》要强。

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，受了那么多的苦难， 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！

The story of the scarlet letter grew into legend.

字的故事逐渐成为传奇。

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，就像你的样， 在你的字这样的重负之下。

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眼字。

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

他走近步，发现了字。

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

海丝特，你有幸把字公然戴在胸前！

As he spoke, he laid his long fore-finger on the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot.

说着， 他修长的食指放在了字，字顿时就好像被海丝特的胸膛烧焦了般，仿佛被烧了样。