here's all you need to know.

我简要概括一下
This girl, Hester Prynne,

这个女孩赫丝特·普林
has an affair with a minister...

与一位牧师有染
is besmirched and made to wear

为世人唾弃并被逼在衣服上
a red A for "adulterer."

印上A 表示通奸者[首字母A]
The town realizes she was too harshly judged...

后来大家意识到对她评判太过于严苛
and she's really a good person, and she dies a saint.

其实她是个大好人如圣人般归去
A whole bunch of other stuff happens too.

当然还有一些别的事情发生
If you have a test on it, rent the movie,

如果你考试要考这个租个电影看
but make sure it's the original not the Demi Moore version

但要是原版的别看黛咪·摩尔版
where she talks in a fake british accent and takes a lot of baths.

就是她操着蹩脚英伦腔没事就洗澡那版
To say that one was freely adapted is

如果说那版勉强能接受