the scarlet letter

常見例句

Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom!
你是有幸的，海絲特，因爲你能把紅字公開地戴在胸前！
It was whispered, by those who peered after her, that the scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passage-way of the interior.
那些目光隨著她身影窺眡的人耳語著說，她胸前的紅字在中內黑漆漆的通路上投下了一道血紅的閃光。
But, in truth, Pearl was the one, as well as the other; and only in consequence of that identity had Hester contrived so perfectly to represent the scarlet letter in her appearance.
然而，事實上，恰恰是珠兒集二者於一身；而且，也正因爲有了這個同一性，海絲特才能如此完美地用孩子的外表率象征她的紅字。

It seems like any and all stocks related to nuclear energy have been marked with the scarlet letter.
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In the former example, you can use anything from the Civil Rights Movement to The Scarlet Letter as evidence, while the latter likely begs more for examples from personal experience or abstract arguments.
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Out of the many things the housing bubble and subsequent financial crisis marked with the scarlet letter, monolines, or bond insurance companies, have become one of the last to finally fall from grace.
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