It was whispered, by those who peered after her, that the scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passageway of the interior.

那些在她身后窥视的人低声说，那红字在屋内漆黑的过道上投下了一道血红的闪光。

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Nay, from the moment when we came down the old churchsteps together, a married pair, I might have beheld the bale-fire of that scarlet letter blazing at the end of our path!

唉，从我们新婚燕尔，一起走下那古老教堂的门防的那一刻起，我就应该看到：在我们道路的尽头燃着红字的熊熊烈火！

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

他向前迈了一步，发现了红字。

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By her last term, Snowe writes that a senator's willingness to reach across the aisle had become a "scarlet letter" instead of badge of honor.

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So, if a bank applies for the program and gets rejected, that's like a financial scarlet letter.

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Hawthorne, most famous for his novels The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, also wrote a short story collection called Mosses from an Old Manse, in which he christened the house.

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