2 Broken glass

Chapter 2 Broken glass At the start of the new school term. Anne and Lies walked to school together as usual. Anne curled and twirled her hair around her fingers as she talked, casting smiles at the boy beside them. "Anne Frank!" exclaimed Lies in a loud whisper. "You are such a flirt." "No, I'm not," Anne giggled. "Then stop looking at that boy." "But he's looking at me!" Anne retorted. "Besides, I can't help it if he likes me." "You just love people paying you attention," said Lies, laughing. Anne felt she was having the best year ever. For her, 1937 was a golden time. She had a throng of friends, girls and boys, and there

第二章新学期伊始，玻璃碎了。 安妮和利斯像往常一样一起步行去学校。 安妮一边说，一边把头发卷在手指上，对着旁边的男孩微笑。 “安妮·弗兰克！”利斯大声耳语道。 “你真会调情。”“不，我不是，”安妮咯咯地笑着说。 “那就别再看那个男孩了。” “但他在看着我！”安妮反驳道。 “再说，如果他喜欢我，我也没办法。” “你就是喜欢别人关注你，”Lies笑着说。 安妮觉得这是她度过的最好的一年。 对她来说，1937年是一个黄金时期。 她有一群朋友，有女孩也有男孩

were family trips to the lakes and to Switzerland, to see their cousins. But as time passed, fear began to lurk at the back of Anne's mind, much as she tried to crush it. Aged nine, she overheard scraps of terrifying news from the grown-ups* conversations. They whispered about friends in Nazi Germany who had been rounded up and taken away to work in places called concentration camps. No one had heard from them since. Words like Kristallnacht- "Night of broken glass"- rang in her head. Anne knew that on Kristallnacht, Jews in Germany had been beaten up and the windows of Jewish-owned shops and homes had been smashed in. The dark streets had glittered like a nightmare with shards of broken glass. Safe in Amsterdam, the Franks tried to lead a normal life. But, the following year, 1939.

是全家去湖边和瑞士旅行，去看望他们的表亲。 但随着时间的流逝，恐惧开始潜伏在安妮的内心深处，尽管她试图粉碎它。 9岁时，她从大人们的谈话中听到了一些可怕的消息。 他们低声谈论纳粹德国的朋友，他们被围捕并带到集中营工作。 从那以后，再也没有人听到他们的消息。 像“水晶之夜”——“碎玻璃之夜”这样的字眼在她的脑海里回荡。 安妮知道，在水晶之夜，在德国的犹太人遭到殴打，犹太人开的商店和家庭的窗户被砸碎。 黑暗的街道上到处都是玻璃碎片，像噩梦一样闪闪发光。 安全的阿姆斯特丹，弗兰克斯试图过正常的生活。 但是，第二年，1939年。

Edith was more worried than ever. "First Hitler invaded Poland, now Britain's declared war on Germany. It might be us next. What will happen then?"

伊迪丝比以前更担心了。 “先是希特勒入侵波兰，现在英国又对德国宣战。 下一个可能是我们。那时会发生什么事呢？”

"Send the girls to us," wrote Otto's cousin Milly, from England. "I know we're at war, but if you think it's the least bit safe, please send the children here." But although Edith and Otto discussed it, they decided to stay together as a family. "We couldn't bear to part with the girls," Otto wrote back. "They mean too much to us." The following May. Anne and Margot had their photographs taken as usual. Anne spent

“把女孩们送到我们这儿来，”奥托的表妹米莉从英国写信给他。 “我知道我们在打仗，但如果你认为这里有一点点安全，请把孩子们送到这里来。” 尽管伊迪丝和奥托讨论过这个问题，但他们还是决定一家人待在一起。 “我们无法忍受和女儿们分开，”奥托回信说。 “他们对我们来说太重要了。” 第二年五月。安妮和玛戈特照例照了相。 安妮花了

a happy afternoon sticking the photos into her album. She studied them carefully. Now she was eleven, Anne took her appearance very seriously. She longed to look glamorous. Beside each one, she scribbled a note...

一个愉快的下午，把照片贴进她的相册。 她仔细地研究着它们。 现在安妮十一岁了，她非常重视自己的外表。 她渴望看起来光鲜亮丽。 在每一幅画的旁边，她潦草地写了一张纸条……

But, later that night, she couldn't sleep. The air was filled with a strange droning noise. She looked at her clock. It said four in the morning. The next moment there was a massive explosion, followed by another and then another. Anne raced into her parents' room. "What's happening?" she cried. Her parents were standing with Margot, staring out of their bedroom window. Anne went to look too. A swarm of planes was streaming across the sky. In the distance, fires burned and the smell of smoke seeped in through the open window. Otto put his arm around Anne and held her close. "They're German planes, Anne," he said. "Hitler's invading."

但是，那天晚上，她睡不着。 空气中充满了一种奇怪的嗡嗡声。 她看了看时钟。上面写着凌晨四点。 下一刻发生了一场巨大的爆炸，接着是另一场，然后是另一场。 安妮冲进父母的房间。 “出什么事了？”她叫道。 她的父母和玛戈特站在一起，凝视着卧室的窗外。 安妮也去看了看。一群飞机在天空中呼啸而过。 远处有火在燃烧，烟味从开着的窗户里渗进来。 奥托把安妮搂得紧紧的。 “那是德国的飞机，安妮，”他说。 “希特勒的侵略。”