4 Chapter 2 A New Home

Chapter 2 A New Home Amsterdam is a pretty city. It is crisscrossed with canals. Boats go up and down the canals all hours of the day. Anne was only four years old in 1934 when she moved there. Amsterdam quickly became her home.

阿姆斯特丹是一座美丽的城市。 运河纵横交错。 船只全天在运河上来来往往。 安妮1934年搬到那里时只有四岁。 阿姆斯特丹很快成为她的家。

The Franks' new apartment was not as large as the one in Frankfurt. But it had room for guests. Otto and Edith missed their old friends and family. So they were very happy when Oma came to live with them. They hoped other relatives would visit, too. Many other Jewish families moved from Germany to Amsterdam. The Franks soon had a circle of German Jewish friends. At school, half the children in Anne's class were Jewish. Some had even come from Frankfurt, just like her.

弗兰克家的新公寓没有法兰克福的那套大。 但它有客人的地方。 奥托和伊迪丝想念他们的老朋友和家人。 所以当奥玛来和他们住在一起时，他们非常高兴。 他们希望其他亲戚也能来拜访。 许多其他犹太家庭从德国搬到了阿姆斯特丹。 法兰克人很快就有了一群德国犹太人朋友。 在学校里，安妮班上一半的孩子是犹太人。 有些人甚至像她一样来自法兰克福。

Anne was a good student, although she hated math. She was a chatterbox, and often teachers had to scold her to be quiet. In her free time she liked playing Ping-Pong. She started a Ping-Pong club called the Little Bear Minus 2 Club. There were five members. The name of the club came from the number of stars in the Little Bear constellation. Anne had thought there were five stars. But really there were seven. That explains the "minus 2" in the club's name.

安妮是个好学生，虽然她讨厌数学。 她是个喋喋不休的人，老师常常不得不责备她，让她安静下来。 在她的空闲时间，她喜欢打乒乓球。 她创办了一个乒乓球俱乐部，叫做小熊减2俱乐部。 有五名成员。俱乐部的名字来自小熊星座的星星数量。 安妮以为有五颗星。 但实际上有七个。 这就解释了俱乐部名字里的“- 2”。

Anne liked to read—history books and Greek myths and a popular series of books about a girl named Joop who was adventurous and lively like Anne. Anne liked ice-skating and riding her bike with her friend Hanne. Hanne went along with all of Anne's pranks. Sometimes Anne and Hanne stood

安妮喜欢读历史书和希腊神话，还有一本很受欢迎的系列书，讲的是一个名叫乔普的女孩的故事，她和安妮一样爱冒险、活泼。 安妮喜欢滑冰，喜欢和她的朋友汉娜一起骑自行车。 汉娜同意了安妮所有的恶作剧。 有时安妮和汉娜站着

on the balcony of the Franks' apartment and poured water on the people in the street below.

在弗兰克家公寓的阳台上，向楼下街上的人泼水。