英文名著精选阅读:《红字》第十八章(上)
Chapter 18 A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
第十八章 一片阳光
ARTHUR DIMMESDALE gazed into Hester's face with a look in which hope and joy shone out, indeed, but with fear betwixtthem, and a kind of horror at her boldness, who had spoken what he vaguelyhinted at, but dared not speak.
阿瑟·丁梅斯代尔凝视着海丝特的面孔,他的神情中确实闪烁着希望和欣喜,但其中也夹杂着畏缩,以及对她的胆识的一种惊惧,因为她说出了他隐约地暗示而没敢说出的话。
But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed, from society, had habituatedherself to such latitude of speculationas was altogether foreign to the clergyman. She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricateand shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquythat was to decide their fate. Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamedas freely as the wild Indian in his woods. For years past she had looked from this estranged point of view at human institutions, and whatever priests or legislators had established; criticising all with hardly more reverencethan the Indian would feel for the clericalband, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church. The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers- sternand wild ones- and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
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