红字
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 初版 1850 年
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作为美国文学的奠基之作，《The Scarlet Letter》讲述了清教徒统治下的新英格兰地区一个关于通奸、负罪感与社会压抑的冷峻而具寓言色彩的故事。Nathaniel Hawthorne 探讨了公众自我与私人自我、内在激情与外在规范之间的对立，为我们塑造了令人难忘的 Hester Prynne 形象——她在孤立排挤中寻获力量，成为一名超越时代的女性英雄。
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我以为大家高中时都得读纳撒尼尔·霍桑的《红字》。也许真应该把它重新列为必读经典。
I thought everyone was supposed to read Nathanial Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter” in high school. Maybe it should return to being required reading.
……批评大家看不到你所看到的东西。一种可能是你有点反应过度了。不过说明白点，对我来说，他们用的措辞似乎具体指的就是纳撒尼尔·霍桑的小说《红字》。这是一个在文化上很有分量、经常被重复引用的表达，毫无冒犯之意，而且不像扯到纳粹那样离谱，放在这里完全合情合理。在剩下的……
…criticizing everyone as being unable to see what you see. One possibility is that you might be overreacting. But to be clear, to me, the wording that they used seems to specifically indicate the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathanial Hawthorne. This is a culturally significant phrasing with frequent repetition, which is non-offensive, and unlike a mention of the Nazis, actually makes sense in context. In the rest of…
> 大家都倾向于把【清教徒政权】美化一番，因为他们识字率高，而且在当时对待女性比大多数地方都要好。我觉得这说法跟全美几乎每所高中都要读《红字》的事实完全对不上号。
> Everybody tends to white wash [the Puritan regime] because they had high literacy rates and treated women better than most at the time. I don't think this squares with The Scarlet Letter being read in just about every high school in the US.
……效果很好，因为它是部能吸引人看下去的喜剧。（我只说“相似”而不是“一样”，是因为虽然我还记得那个 A 代表什么，但《红字》的故事细节我已经完全记不得了）[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_A
…works because it's a comedy that keeps you interested. (And I only say "similar" instead of "the same" because although I can remember what the A was, I can't remember anything about the narrative in The Scarlet Letter) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_A
其中有些书写得也确实烂，比如《红字》——留给我的印象就是太能兜圈子了，甚至书的前半部分必须靠后半部分提供的背景交代才能看出点意义来。而且……
Some of them are also just badly written, like The Scarlet Letter - the impression that stuck with me was it took way too long to get to the point, so much so that the second half of the book contained needed context for the first half to have any meaning at all. And…
……这些人的一生受到的打击与其过错完全不成正比，我觉得这太不幸了。补充一下：纯粹从文学作品的角度我可能不会推荐它，但霍桑《红字》的主题和教训跟当下这事简直是直接、严丝合缝地对上了。
…people whose lives will be damaged disproportionate to their crime, and I think that's extremely unfortunate. Edit: I can't recommend it as a literary work, but the themes and lessons of Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" are directly and immediately relevant here.