The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

gripe抱怨；怨言；牢騷

like a sexton (a person whose job is to take care of a church and its surroundings, ring the church bell, etc. （負責看管教堂及其周邊設施、敲鐘等的）教堂司事) delving【古】挖,掘into a grave

Bunyan (Paul Bunyan is a mythological lumberjack who is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill.)

inimical對…有害的；不利於…的to his peace

their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity很不公正，十分錯誤，很不正當（的事）

must needs propagate繁殖；增殖a hellish breed within them

penitential悔悟的；悔罪的；懺悔的self-abasement

behave more decorously有禮貌地;高雅地;正派地

bespatter詆毀t
A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

the disorder of his nerves had hurried him into an unseemly不禮貌的；不得體的；不相宜的 outbreak of temper

palliate緩和;減輕

proffering提出，提供（建議、解釋等） the advice

I must needs look deeper into it.

somniferous催眠的;使睏倦的;想睡的

acquiring abstruse難解的；深奧的lore

efficacious有效的；奏效的；靈驗的,

attestation證據

ethereal幽雅的；輕飄的；縹緲的；超凡的

inconceivable難以想像的；無法相信的

veneration尊敬
defiled褻瀆

above all things else, he loathed his miserable self!

scourge禍害；禍根；災害

impalpable無法感觸到的;無形的

The only truth that continued to give Mr. Dimmesdale a real existence on this earth was the anguish in his inmost soul

somnambulism夢遊病

from zenith天頂to horizon.

stiffen his joints with rheumatism風濕（病）

clog his throat with catarrh（鼻喉黏膜炎引起的）黏液，痰and cough

penitence懺悔；悔罪；愧疚

Remorse which dogged him everywhere

gripe抱怨；怨言；牢騷

expiation贖罪;補償

the gnawing（長時間）折磨人的，令人痛苦的，使人苦惱的and poisonous tooth of bodily pain

outcry吶喊；怒吼；強烈的抗議

reverberated (使)回響;(使)反射;(使)彈回

lurid俗豔的；花哨的.

deacons（羅馬天主教、聖公會和東正教會的）執事，會吏

scantly缺乏地;僅僅

kerchiefs頭巾

half-torpid不活潑的；遲鈍的；有氣無力的；懶散的system. The three formed an electric

noontide正午,中午?"

meteors (a piece of rock from outer space that makes a bright line across the night sky as it burns up while falling through the earth's atmosphere 流星)

its expression frequently so elvish

Pestilence瘟疫

admonished告誡;警告

Verily真正地；真實地

hereafter (a life believed to begin after death 死後的生命；來世; --in legal documents, etc. 用於法律文件等)

scurrilous惡語毀謗的；用污言穢語謾罵的；辱罵的

grovelled卑躬屈膝；俯首貼耳；奴顏婢膝

Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

pestilence瘟疫stalked through the town

She was self-ordained 任命...為牧師(或神父等),授...以聖職a Sister of Mercy

to accost（貿然）上前搭訕；（唐突地）走近談話her

The public is despotic暴君的;暴虐的,專橫的 in its temper;

deportment風度；儀態; 行為；舉止

frailty（性格或道德上的）弱點，軟弱，薄弱

Then, it is true, the propensity（行為方面的）傾向；習性

the scarlet letter had the effect of the cross on a nun's bosom

It imparted分給;給予;傳授to the wearer a kind of sacredness, which enabled her to walk securely amid all peril.

attributed to the circumstance that her life had turned, in a great measure, from passion and feeling to thought

emancipated被解放的

stigmatised誣衊

all other difficulties being obviated排除,消除

ethereal幽雅的；輕飄的；縹緲的；超凡的

insurmountable無法克服的；難以解決的；不可逾越的

a deep chasm (地上的）深裂口，裂隙，深坑

on the night of his vigil（看望病人、禱告、抗議等的）不眠時間；（尤指）值夜，守夜祈禱

struggled, or, to speak more accurately, had ceased to struggle.

abased使謙卑,使降低地位(或身分等)

an elf-smile in her eyes

to discern (to know, recognize or understand something, especially something that is not obvious 覺察出；識別；瞭解) what a change had been wrought upon him within the past seven years

adding fuel to those fiery tortures which he analysed and gloated貪婪地(或幸災樂禍地)注視;心滿意足地注視 .幸災樂禍;洋洋得意 over.

peradventure或許,可能

He has been conscious of me. He has felt an influence dwelling always upon him like a curse.

propinquity（空間或時間上的）臨近，接近
the direst極糟的；極差的revenge

"Hast thou not tortured him enough?" said Hester, noticing the old man's look. "Has he not paid thee all?""No, no! He has but increased the debt!" answered the physician
I could well-nigh (almost 幾乎；差不多；可謂) pity thee

purge (淨化（心靈、風氣等）；滌蕩（污穢）) it out of thee

awry出岔子；出錯

reciprocated交換;報答;互給

"Yes, I hate him!" repeated Hester more bitterly than before.
"He betrayed me! He has done me worse wrong than I did him!"

with her remarkable precocity (人,植物等的)早熟

with an asperity（尤指語言、態度）嚴厲，嚴酷that she had never permitted to herself before

scrofula【醫】淋巴結結核(=King's evil)

loquacity多話,饒舌

penance (especially in particular religions 尤見於某些宗教 an act that you give yourself to do, or that a priest gives you to do in order to show that you are sorry for something you have done wrong 補贖；悔罪；修和聖事)

penitence (.a feeling of being sorry because you have done something wrong 懺悔；悔罪；愧疚)

malevolent有惡意的；有壞心腸的

contiguity接近
indelicacy品行不端;無教養

consecration神聖化;祝聖(儀式);奉獻(儀式)

in Germany, in France, in pleasant Italy—thou wouldst be beyond his power and knowledge!

They have kept thy better part in bondage too long already!

Meddle no more with it! Begin all anew!

Why shouldst thou tarry逗留；耽擱so much as one other day in the torments that have so gnawed• 咬,啃,嚙;咬斷;咬成; • 3.消耗;腐蝕;侵蝕; • 4.使煩惱,折磨;• 5.啃,嚙
• 6.消耗;侵蝕;• 7.煩惱,折磨 into thy life?

spoken what he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak

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!

extenuation (罪行等的)減輕;偏袒的辯護of his crime

expiating贖(罪);補償

citadel城堡，要塞，堡壘


never subjugated征服;制服;使屈從; 克制,抑制by human law

partridge (a brown bird with a round body and a short tail, that people hunt for sport or food; the meat of this bird 山鶉；山鶉肉)

choleric易怒的；脾氣暴躁的；脾氣不好的

anemones 【植】銀蓮花,秋牡丹; 【動】海葵, and columbines耬

dryad ((in stories) a female spirit who lives in a tree （傳說中的）林中女仙，樹精)

misses something that she has always seen me wear!"

cankered 害口瘡的; 腐爛的; 不懷好意的wrath

dell (a small valley with trees growing in or around it （裏面或周圍有樹的）小山谷)

In furtherance of this choice, it so happened …

he could not have chanced upon a more suitable mode and time of terminating his professional career

leave no public duty unperformed or ill-performed

comport行為表現；舉止with the obeisance景仰；尊敬；忠順；順從

a burial-ground is full of storied (mentioned in stories; famous; well known 廣為流傳的；有名的；眾所周知的) gravestones

pithy (short but expressed well and full of meaning 言簡意賅的；精煉的)

The instilment漸漸灌輸;滴注thereof into her mind would…

to barter（同某人）以物易物；以財產（或勞務等）作交換the transitory pleasures of the world for the heavenly hope

She ransacked徹底搜索,仔細搜查; 洗劫,搶劫,掠奪her conscience

ludicrous荒唐的；不合理的；不能當真的

valiantly勇敢地,英勇地

smiled craftily狡猾地;詭詐地

her aged stateliness威嚴;莊重

old hag (an ugly and/or unpleasant old woman 醜陋（或討厭）的老女人) has chosen for her prince and master
minstrel（中世紀的）遊方藝人

gleeman【古】吟遊詩人

juggler玩雜耍的人；耍把戲的人；變戲法的人

arraigned責難;指責

depredations掠奪;破壞,蹂躪

buccaneer（古代）海盜

relinquish（尤指不情願地）放棄

a man of probity正直；誠實

animadversion 責難,非難;批評,責備

mariner水手

berth (a place to sleep on a ship or train, or in a caravan /camper （船或火車等的）卧鋪，艙位，鋪位)

scurvy (a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C from not eating enough fruit and vegetables 壞血病)

stately (low, formal and graceful 緩慢莊嚴的；優雅從容的)

effervescence歡騰

Privy准許知情；可參與秘事Council

arrayed (dressed in a particular way, especially in beautiful clothes 穿戴（尤指漂亮衣服）) in great magnificence, with a triple ruff, a broidered stomacher, a gown of rich velvet, and a gold-headed cane

an Indian powwow (a meeting of Native Americans 帕瓦儀式（美洲土著一種盛宴和舞蹈儀式）)

"Fie呸!;咄!(表示輕蔑、不高興等) , woman—fie!" cried the old lady

The sun, but little past its meridian (one of the lines that is drawn from the North Pole to the South Pole on a map of the world 子午線；經線)

irreverent不敬的；不恭的

He withdrew his dying eyes from the old man, and fixed them on the woman and the child.

portent預兆；徵兆；先兆；（尤指）惡兆，凶兆

how utterly nugatory (having no purpose or value 無目的的；無價值的) is …

parable (a short story that teaches a moral or spiritual lesson, especially one of those told by Jesus as recorded in the Bible （尤指《聖經》中的）寓言故事)

repudiate拒絕；不接受；回絕

hatred and antipathy厭惡；反感

he bequeathed (立遺囑)把...遺贈給; 傳下;留下a very considerable amount of property to little Pearl

impediments障礙

more dreary and desolate than even she could bear


recluse (a person who lives alone and likes to avoid other people 隱居者；喜歡獨處的人)

burdened with a life-long sorrow

a new grave was delved【古】挖,掘

engraved被深深印入的;被牢記的escutcheon飾有紋章的盾

"ON A FIELD, SABLE, THE LETTER A, GULES (紋章)紅色的"