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(中英對照美國經典文學名著)
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名著名篇雙語對照叢書
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| 作者 |
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霍桑（美）
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7506813904
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285
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16開
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簡裝本
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| 出版社 |
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中國書籍出版社
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2006-1-1
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266
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這部小說是19世紀美國浪漫主義作家霍桑的長篇小說。小說以兩百多年前的殖民地時代的美洲為題材，但揭露的卻是19世紀資本主義發展時代美國社會法典的殘酷、宗教的欺騙和道德的虛偽。主人公海斯特被寫成了崇高道德的化身。她不但感化了表裏不一的丁梅斯代爾，同時也在感化著充滿罪惡的社會。它不僅是美國浪漫主義小說的代表作，同時也被稱作是美國心理分析小說的開創篇。本書是小說的英漢對照版。
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The Prison—Door 獄門
The Market—Place 市場
The Recognition 認出
The Interview 相見
Hester at Her Needle 赫斯特的針線活
Pearl 珠兒
The Governor’s Hall 州長的大廳
The Elf-Child and the Minister 小精靈和牧師
The Leech 醫生
The Leech and His Patient 醫生和他的病人
The Interior of a Heart 內心
The Minister’s Vigil 牧師的夜出
Another View of Hester 赫斯特的另一面
Hester and the Physician 赫斯特和醫生
Hester and Pead 赫斯特和珠兒
A Forest Walk 林中漫步
The Pastor and His Parishioner 牧師和他的教民
A Flood of Sunshine 陽光普照
The Child at the Brook—Side 溪邊的小女孩
The Minister in a Maze 困惑不解的牧師
The New England Holiday 新英格蘭的節日
The Procession 行進的隊伍
The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter 新出現的紅A字
Conclusion 終結
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The Prison-Door
THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray,
steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods,
and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden
edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and
studded with iron spiks.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human
virtue and happiness they might originally project, have
invariably recognized it among their earliest practical
necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery,
and another portion as the site of a prison. In accordance with
this rule, it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of
Boston had built the first prison-house, somewhere in the
vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the
first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson's lot, and round about his
grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the
congregated sepulchres in the old church-yard of King's Chapel.
Certain it is,that, some fifteen or twenty years after the
settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with
weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet
darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. The rust on
the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than
anything else in the new world. Like all that pertains to crime,
it seemed never to have known a youthful era. Before this ugly
edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a
grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-peru,
and such unsightly vegetation,which evidently found something
congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of
civilized society, a prison. But, on one side of the portal, anti
rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered,
in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be
imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the
prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came
forth to his doom,in token that the deep heart of Nature could
pity and be kind to him.
This rose-bush, by a strange chance, has been kept alive in
history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old
wilderness, so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks
that originally overshadowed it--or whether, as there is fair
authority for believing, it had sprung up under the footsteps of
the sainted Ann Hutchinson, as she entered the prison-door--we
shall not take upon us to determine. Finding it so directly on the
threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that
inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one
of its flowers and present it to the reader. It may serve, let us
hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be found
along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of
human frailty and sorrow.
第一章 獄門
一群滿臉鬍子的男子，身穿深暗色的衣服，頭戴灰色的尖帽，其中還混
雜著一些扎了頭巾或光著腦袋的婦女，聚集在一所大木屋前面。屋門是櫟木
做的，很厚實，上面釘滿了大頭鐵釘。
新殖民地的創始人，不管他們原先設計的是一種什麼樣的人間美滿、幸
福的烏托邦，可都一定承認，根據他們草創時期的實際需要，應從這片處女
地中劃出一部分做墓地，再劃出一部分做監獄的基地。按照這一常規，可以
萬無一失地推斷，波士頓的祖先們在伊薩克．約翰遜①的地段內，在他的墳
墓周圍劃出了最早的葬地，並且幾乎與此同時，還在康布爾附近一個地方建
立了第一所監獄。伊薩克·約翰遜的墳墓後來成了皇家舊教堂墓地裏一片墳
墓的中心。的確，在這個城市建成大約十五至二十年以後，那所木造監獄由
于風吹雨打和年深日久已是痕跡斑斑了。這就給那猙獰而陰森的監獄正面更
增加了一番淒涼景象。它那櫟木大門上面沉重的大頭鐵釘長滿了鐵銹，看上
去比美洲的任何東西都要古老。它像一切有罪的東西一樣，從不知道自己有
過一段青春時期。在這座陰森可怕的木屋前面，在它同街上那條車道之間，
是一塊草坪，上面長滿了牛蒡、茨藜、蒺藜牽牛以及諸如此類的很不雅觀的
植物，顯而易見，它們在這片很早就開出了文明社會的黑花——監獄——的
土壤中，找到了適宜生長的養料。然而，在入口的另一面，幾乎就在門檻上
生了根的，是一叢野玫瑰，它在這六月的天氣裏，綴滿了寶石般晶瑩的花朵
。這也許可以設想，這些花朵要把自己的芳香和嬌艷獻給那步人牢房的囚犯
，獻給那跨出牢房去接受極刑的死囚，藉以表示造物主的內心對他的同情和
仁慈。
這一叢玫瑰由於一個奇妙的機緣，已永垂青史了。但是，它是否僅僅是
那原來遮蓋它的那些參天古松和櫟樹倒落以後很久而從荒蕪的原野中倖存下
來的呢?還是有充分的證據認為是在成了聖徒的安·哈欽森走進獄門時，在
她的足跡下萌生出來的呢?我們可以姑置勿論了。由於這叢玫瑰恰好就在我
們現在就要從那不祥的獄門講起的故事的開頭，我幾乎情不自禁地要摘下一
朵來奉獻給讀者。我們希望，它能象徵故事進程中那一路上可以找到的芬芳
宜人的道德之花，或用來沖淡些這一人類的脆弱和悲哀的故事的陰暗結局。
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