4 The Secret annexe

Chapter 4 The secret annexe Five months later, Anne was lying in bed. staring up at her bedroom wall. She had covered it with photographs of her family and her pictures of movie stars to make it seem more like home.

5个月后，安妮躺在床上。 盯着她卧室的墙壁。 她在上面贴满了家人的照片和电影明星的照片，使它看起来更像家。

"It's amazing," Anne was thinking. "There are eight people all living in this tiny space." A week after the Franks moved in, the van Pelses had come to join them. "Mr. van Pels tells terrible jokes and Mrs. van Pels is always scolding me," Anne grumbled to herself. "It's a shame their son. Peter, is so dull. But it's good to have other people around. If only I didn't have to share a room with the exasperating Mr. Pfeffer.." As Anne turned, her bed made a loud creaking noise. "Shh, shh," muttered Pfeffer, from his side of the narrow room. Anne clenched her fists. "Next time he shushes me," she thought, "I'm going to shush him right back. But I know I mustn't moan... I must be reasonable." Fritz Pfeffer had arrived in November, four months after the Franks. The van Pelses had immediately presented him with a Guide to the Secret Annexe. Fritz needed to learn the rules of the annexe quickly, so he didn't put everyone in hiding at risk.

“太神奇了，”安妮想。 “有八个人住在这个小空间里。” 弗兰克一家搬进来一个星期后，范佩尔斯一家也来了。 “范·佩尔斯先生讲可怕的笑话，范·佩尔斯太太总是骂我，”安妮自言自语道。 “这是他们的儿子的耻辱。彼得太无趣了。 但有其他人在身边是件好事。 要是我不用和那个令人恼火的普费弗先生同住一个房间就好了……” 安妮一转身，她的床就发出了巨大的嘎吱声。 “嘘，嘘，”普费弗在狭窄的房间里从他那一边小声说。 安妮紧握着拳头。“下次他嘘我的时候，”她想，“我也要嘘他。 但我知道我不能抱怨…… 我必须讲道理。”弗里茨·普费弗是在11月到达的，比法兰克人晚了四个月。 范佩尔斯夫妇立刻给了他一本《秘密附件指南》。 弗里茨需要尽快了解附件的规则，这样他就不会让所有人都处于危险之中。

As soon as Pfeffer arrived, everyone pelted him with questions about the outside world. "Things are getting worse for the Jews," he told them. "Night after night, the Nazis cruise the streets. They break into people's houses, looking for Jews in hiding. Anyone found is taken away to the camp at Westerbork." There was silence after that. Miep had told them about Westerbork. The people there hardly got anything to eat. And the camps in Poland were even more terrible. The radio said Jews were being gassed there. "Perhaps that's the quickest way to die," thought Anne. "It's so quiet here and we're safe, at least for now. I should be grateful. We're the lucky ones." But it was hard to be grateful all the time. Being cooped up all day meant arguments broke out frequently, and Anne hated having to tiptoe around each day, keeping her voice to a whisper. "I long to be able to move around freely again," she confided to her diary. She was terrified, too, that they'd be discovered and shot.

普费弗一到，大家就纷纷向他提问有关外部世界的问题。 耶稣对他们说，犹太人的景况越来越糟了。 “一夜又一夜，纳粹分子在街上巡逻。 他们闯入民宅，寻找躲藏的犹太人。 任何被发现的人都会被带到韦斯特博克的集中营。” 之后是一阵沉默。 米普把韦斯特博克的事告诉了他们。 那里的人几乎没有东西吃。 波兰的集中营更可怕。 电台说犹太人在那里被用毒气杀害。 “也许这是最快的死法，”安妮想。 “这里很安静，我们很安全，至少现在是这样。 我应该心存感激。我们是幸运的。” 但要一直心存感激是很难的。 整天被关在家里，争吵就会频繁爆发，安妮讨厌每天蹑手蹑脚地走来走去，压低声音。 “我渴望能够再次自由活动，”她在日记中吐露心声。 她也很害怕，担心他们会被发现并被枪毙。

As the war dragged on, things seemed to be getting worse. News reports on the radio told of battles being fought in Africa, Russia, Italy... "The whole world is at war," Anne wrote in her diary. "And the end is nowhere in sight." When Anne peeked out from behind the curtains now, the children on the streets looked ragged and starving. As the months

随着战争的持续，情况似乎越来越糟。 电台的新闻报道讲述了非洲、俄罗斯、意大利…… “整个世界都处于战争状态，”安妮在日记中写道。 “终点遥遥无期。” 当安妮从窗帘后向外窥视时，街上的孩子们看起来衣衫褴褛，饥肠辘辘。 随着时间的推移

passed, food became scarcer and scarcer. It was only the efforts of their helpers that kept the members of the annexe alive. Every day, Miep went out on her bicycle to find food for them all, often queuing for hours just to get a loaf of bread, while Bep smuggled in milk from the office supply. And every Saturday, Miep brought five books from the library. "You have no idea how we long for Saturdays," Anne told Miep. "Books mean everything when you're cooped up. We couldn't do without your visits, either," she added. Anne knew that the office staff risked their lives to help them. For the sake of their helpers, and for the others in hiding, Anne tried to stay cheerful and brave. But at times she felt as if her personality were splitting in two. When she was with the others she laughed and joked and chatted away. Only when she was on her own, writing her diary, did she feel free to reveal her serious side. Sometimes she would flood her diary with her despair.

过去了，食物变得越来越稀缺。 正是由于他们的助手的努力，附属机构的成员才得以生存。 每天，米普骑着自行车出去给他们所有人找食物，经常为了得到一条面包而排上几个小时的队，而贝普则从办公室的供应品里偷偷带进牛奶。 每个星期六，米普从图书馆带五本书。 “你不知道我们多么渴望星期六，”安妮对米普说。 “当你被关起来的时候，书就是一切。 我们也不能没有你的来访，”她补充说。 安妮知道办公室的工作人员冒着生命危险来帮助他们。 为了帮助他们的人，也为了其他躲藏起来的人，安妮努力保持愉快和勇敢。 但有时她觉得自己的人格似乎分裂成两部分。 当她和其他人在一起时，她又笑又开玩笑，聊个不停。 只有当她独自一人写日记的时候，她才会自由地展示她严肃的一面。 有时她会把她的绝望写在日记里。