Reading:【Anne' s Best Friend 安妮最好的朋友】 Do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest felins andthoughts? Or are you afraid that your friend would laugh at you, or would not understand what you are goingthrough? Anne Frank wanted the first kind, so she made her diary her best friend. Anne lived in Amsterdam in theNetherlands during World War . Her family was Jewish so nearly twenty-five months before they were
discovered. During that time the only true friend was her diary. She said," I don't want to set down a series offacts in a diary as most people do, but I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty."Now read how she felt after being in the hiding place since July 1942. Thursday 15th June, 1944 Dear Kitty,Iwonder if it' s because I haven' t been able to be outdoors for so long that ' ve grown so crazy about
everything to do with nature. I can well remember that there was a time when a deep blue sky, the song of thebirds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound. That' s changed since I was here. .Forexample, one evening when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven in order to have agood look at the moon by my self. But as the moon gave far too much light, I didn' t dare open a window.Another time five months ago, I happened to be upstairs at dusk when the window was open. I didn' tgodownstairs until the window bad to be shut. The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held meentirely in their power; it was the first time in a year and a half that I d seen the night face to a..adly ..am only able to look at nature through dirty curtains hanging before very dusty windows. It s no pleasurelooking through these any longer because nature is one thing that really must be experienced. Yours, Anne
【译文】安妮最好的朋友
你是不是想有一位无话不谈能推心置腹的朋友呢?或者你是不是担心你的朋友会嘲笑你，会不理解你目前的困境呢?安妮弗兰克想要的是第一种类型的朋友 ，于是她就把
日记当成了她最好的朋友。安妮在第二 次世界大战期间住在荷兰的阿姆斯特丹。她家人都是犹太人， 所以他们不得不躲藏起来，否则他们就会被德国纳粹抓去。她和她的家人躲藏了两年之后才被发现。在这段时间里，她唯的忠实朋友就是她的日记了。她说，“我不愿像大多数人那样在日记中记流水账。 我要把这本日记当作我的朋友，我要把我这个朋友称作基蒂”。安妮自从1942年7月起就躲藏在那儿了， 现在，来看看她的
亲爱的基蒂:我不知道这是不是因为我长久无法出门的缘故，我变得对一切与大自然有关的事物都无比狂热。我记得非常清楚，以前，湛蓝的天空、鸟儿的歌唱、月光和鲜花，从未令我心迷神往过。自从我来到这里，这一切都变了。wn比方说，有天晚上天气很暖和，我熬到11点半故意不睡觉,为的是独自好好看看月亮。但是因为月光太亮了，我不敢打开窗户。还有一次，就在五个月以前的一个晚上 ，我碰巧在楼上，窗户是开着的。我直等到非关窗不可的时候才下楼去。漆黑的夜晚，风吹雨打，雷电交加，我全然被这种力量镇住了。这是我年半以来第-次目睹夜晚.. .令人伤心的是.，我只能透过脏兮兮的窗帘观看大自然，窗帘悬挂在沾满灰尘的窗前，但观看这些已经不再是乐趣，因为大自然是你必须亲身体验的。
