Mr. Dimmesdale was a true priest, a true religionist, with the reverential sentiment largely developed, and an order of mind that impelled itself powerfully along the track of a creed, and wore its passage continually deeper with the lapse of time.

丁梅斯代尔先生是一位真正的教士，一位真正的宗教徒，虔诚的情感得到了极大的发展，一种思想秩序有力地推动着自己沿着信条的轨道前进，并随着时间的流逝而不断深入。