The House of the Seven Gables

I sha’n’t have the new story ready by November,” he explained to his publisher, on the 1st of October, “for I am never good for anything in the literary way till after the first autumnal frost, which has somewhat such an effect on my imagination that it does on the foliage here about me—multiplying and brightening its hues.”

“我不会在十一月之前准备好新故事，”他在十月一日向出版商解释说，“因为我只有在第一个秋霜之后才能在文学方面有所作为，这对我想象的影响就像它对周围的树叶一样——使它们的色彩更加丰富和明亮。”

John Hathorne (as the name was then spelled), the great-grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a magistrate at Salem in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and officiated at the famous trials for witchcraft held there.

约翰·哈索恩（当时的拼写），纳撒尼尔·霍桑的曾祖父，是十七世纪末塞勒姆的一位法官，并主持了在那里举行的著名的巫术审判。