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scarlet letter

сущ. ; амер.

  1. ист. красная буква A (как знак позора; прикреплялась к одежде женщины, обвинённой в прелюбодеянии (adultery))

  2. = scarlet-letter license plate

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But the new image of single mothers - and of single motherhood - does show that it is getting harder - if not almost impossible - to coerce women by trying to fix upon them the scarlet letter.
Но новый образ одинокой мамы - и её образа жизни - показывает, что становится очень трудно - если не невозможно - сдерживать женщин, пытаясь клеймить их позором.
Wolf, NaomiВольф, Наоми
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Вольф, Наом
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Wolf, Naom
© Project Syndicate 1995 - 2011
The price was set at two dollars—a somewhat forbidding figure in a day when one would soon be able to buy Mr. Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha for one dollar and could already buy Mr. Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter for seventy-five cents.
Цена была два доллара — внушительная сумма для того времени, особенно если вспомнить, что некоторое время спустя можно было купить «Песню о Гайавате» Генри Лонгфелло за один доллар, и уже продавалась «Алая буква» Готорна за 75 центов.
Winterich, John / Books and the manВинтерих, Джон / Приключения знаменитых книг
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Приключения знаменитых книг
Винтерих, Джон
© Издательство "Книга", 1985
Books and the man
Winterich, John
© 1929 by Greenberg

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scarlet letter
Nounкрасная буква A

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