While Hester stood in that magic circle of ignominy, where the cunningcruelty of her sentence seemed to have fixed her for ever, the admirablepreacher was looking down from the sacred pulpitupon an audience, whose very inmost spirits had yielded to his control. The sainted minister in the church! The woman of the scarlet letter in the market-place! What imagination would have been irreverentenough to surmise that the same scorching stigmawas on them both!
就在海丝特站在那耻辱的魔圈中,似乎被对她作出的狡诈而残忍的判决永远钉住了的时候,那位令人赞美的牧师正在从那神圣的祭坛上俯视他的听众,他们最内在的精神已经完全被他攫住了。那位教堂中神圣的牧师!那位市场中佩戴红字的女人!谁能够竟然大不敬地猜想出,他俩身上会有着同样的灼热的耻辱烙印呢!
③居住在斯堪地那维亚半岛和科技半岛北部的拉普人。
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