She knew that fornication was a mortal sin.

她知道私通是一种莫大的犯罪。

Gabrielle, the church is pretty clear on this. If you commit a mortal sin and you die without repenting, you go to hell.

Gabrielle，这件事教堂和清楚的。如果你犯了不可饶恕的罪，你死的时候没有忏悔，你会下地狱的。

Once she would have thought this omission a mortal sin but, somehow, staying away from church did not seem so sinful now as it formerly had.

要是在以前，她会把这种疏忽看成莫大的罪过，可是现在，不进教堂就好像并不那么有罪了。

Well, the pope is saying that the church can no longer say that people in what we call irregular situations are always in a state of mortal sin.

教皇称教会不会再说人们的处境不被认可就是犯了大罪。

We are more distinctly conscious that rude penances are out of the question for gentlemen in an enlightened age, and that mortal sin is not incompatible with an appetite for muffins.

我们更清楚地意识到，对于开明时代的绅士来说，粗鲁的忏悔是不可能的，而且大罪与对松饼的胃口并不矛盾。

I know you, with your religious doctrines, think that a married woman in trouble of a kind like mine commits a mortal sin in making a man the confidant of it, as I did you.

我知道你，以你的宗教教义， 认为一个像我这样遇到麻烦的已婚妇女犯下了致命的罪过， 让男人成为它的知己， 就像我对你一样。