2021年经济学人 默默无闻的反法西斯女英雄(2)

Harnack was tall, blonde and blue-eyed; as president of the American Women’s Club in Berlin she masqueraded as the perfect Nazi¹ wife.

哈纳克身材高大，金发碧眼；作为柏林美国妇女俱乐部的主席，她伪装成一位完美的纳粹妻子。

Meanwhile she and Arvid were funnelling² military information to Allied³ contacts abroad.

与此同时，她和阿维德正在向海外盟军联络人传递军事信息。

Even as the pressure steadily⁴ mounted, survivors⁵ would later recount, they persisted.

幸存者后来回忆说，尽管压力不断增加，但他们坚持了下来。

“Relentless Nazi brutality⁶ invigorates their conviction that they must fight back steadily, diligently⁷, without hesitation,” the author writes.

“残酷的纳粹暴行激发着他们的信念，即他们必须坚定、勤奋、毫不犹豫地反击，”作者写道。

Harnack was careful to betray nothing in her letters home.

哈纳克在她的家书中小心翼翼地不泄露任何信息。

So Ms Donner has pieced the story together from a vast array of sources.

因此，唐纳女士从大量资料中拼凑出了这个故事。

Her book is a tour de force of investigation⁸: she searched two dozen archives in America, Europe and Russia, trawling through intelligence reports and official documents, plus scores of published and unpublished memoirs⁹, diaries and letters.

她的书是调查的杰作：她搜索了美国、欧洲和俄罗斯的20多个档案馆，搜罗情报报告和官方文件，以及大量已出版和未出版的回忆录、日记和信件。

Her most precious source, however, is the memory of Donald Heath junior, who was the 11-year-old son of an American diplomat¹⁰ when he began acting¹¹ as Harnack’s secret courier.

然而，她最宝贵的信息来源是小唐纳德·希思的记忆，小唐纳德·希思是一名美国外交官的儿子，11岁时开始担任哈纳克的秘密信使。

His story fleshes out the lady with the “low, kind voice” whom he visited twice a week in 1939 on Woyrschstrasse, where she slipped notes for his father into his blue backpack.

他的故事使这位有着“低沉又和善的声音”的女士变得丰满起来。1939年，他每周去沃施斯特拉斯看望她两次，就是在那里，她把写给他父亲的纸条塞进了他的蓝色背包。

The couple’s commitment to defying the dictator who was wrecking¹² the country they called home shines through.

这对夫妇决心反抗独裁者的承诺闪耀着光芒，这位独裁者正在破坏他们称之为家的国家。

Arvid was a nephew of a scholar who helped draft the Weimar constitution, part of an intellectual clan¹³ that became a “Who’s Who” of resistance to Hitler.

阿维德是一位帮助起草魏玛宪法的学者的侄子，这位学者是一个知识分子家族的成员，这个家族后来成为抵抗希特勒的“名流”。

His cousins the Bonhoeffers, Delbrücks and Ernst von Harnack participated in the most famous attempt on Hitler’s life, the failed military “Valkyrie” plot of 1944.

他的堂兄弟邦霍费尔兄弟、德尔布吕克和恩斯特·冯·哈纳克参与了最著名的刺杀希特勒的企图行动，即1944年失败的军事密谋“瓦尔基里”。

Harnack joined their fight as women’s rights, too, were shredded¹⁴ by the Nazis¹⁵.

哈纳克加入了她们的斗争，因为女性的权利也被纳粹粉碎了。

She lost her university teaching job, purged¹⁶ like tens of thousands of women, Jews and others.

她失去了大学教师的工作，像成千上万的女性、犹太人及其他人一样遭到清洗。

The story unfolds in fragments.

故事以片段的形式展开。

The early pages, as Ms Donner lays out Hitler’s overthrow¹⁷ of German democracy, can read like potted history.

本书的前几页，唐纳女士描绘了希特勒对德国民主的颠覆，读起来就像简写的历史。

But as the pieces cohere¹⁸, the couple’s story becomes gripping.

但随着片段衔接起来，这对夫妇的故事变得扣人心弦。

They are betrayed, eventually, by a Soviet¹⁹ blunder.

他们最终被苏联的一个愚蠢错误暴露了。

As the Gestapo moves in, arresting resisters from various cells, the reader hears first-hand accounts of their interrogation and torture.

当盖世太保走进来，从不同的牢房逮捕抵抗分子时，读者听到了他们被审讯和被折磨的第一手资料。

The abiding²⁰ impression is of virtuous²¹, extraordinarily²² brave people caught up in tragic²³ horror.

久久不能忘怀的是，那些陷入悲惨恐惧之中的善良的、格外勇敢的人们。

1 Nazi   

n.纳粹分子，adj.纳粹党的，纳粹的

参考例句：

• They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
• Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。

2 funnelling   

倾销( funnel的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Wind was funnelling through the gorge. 风吹过峡谷。
• This causes a funnelling from Asian currencies into dollars and euros. 这导致了一种从亚洲货币到美圆和欧元的漏斗效应。

3 allied   

adj.协约国的；同盟国的

参考例句：

• Britain was allied with the United States many times in history.历史上英国曾多次与美国结盟。
• Allied forces sustained heavy losses in the first few weeks of the campaign.同盟国在最初几周内遭受了巨大的损失。

4 steadily   

adv.稳定地；不变地；持续地

参考例句：

• The scope of man's use of natural resources will steadily grow.人类利用自然资源的广度将日益扩大。
• Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了。

5 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

6 brutality   

n.野蛮的行为，残忍，野蛮

参考例句：

• The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
• a general who was infamous for his brutality 因残忍而恶名昭彰的将军

7 diligently   

ad.industriously;carefully

参考例句：

• He applied himself diligently to learning French. 他孜孜不倦地学法语。
• He had studied diligently at college. 他在大学里勤奋学习。

8 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

9 memoirs   

n.回忆录；回忆录传( mem,自oir的名词复数)

参考例句：

• Her memoirs were ghostwritten. 她的回忆录是由别人代写的。
• I watched a trailer for the screenplay of his memoirs. 我看过以他的回忆录改编成电影的预告片。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 diplomat   

n.外交官，外交家；能交际的人，圆滑的人

参考例句：

• The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话，紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
• He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。

11 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

12 wrecking   

破坏

参考例句：

• He teed off on his son for wrecking the car. 他严厉训斥他儿子毁坏了汽车。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Instead of wrecking the valley, the waters are put to use making electricity. 现在河水不但不在流域内肆疟，反而被人们用来生产电力。 来自辞典例句

13 clan   

n.氏族，部落，宗族，家族，宗派

参考例句：

• She ranks as my junior in the clan.她的辈分比我小。
• The Chinese Christians,therefore,practically excommunicate themselves from their own clan.所以，中国的基督徒简直是被逐出了自己的家族了。

14 shredded   

shred的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• Serve the fish on a bed of shredded lettuce. 先铺一层碎生菜叶，再把鱼放上，就可以上桌了。
• I think Mapo beancurd and shredded meat in chilli sauce are quite special. 我觉得麻婆豆腐和鱼香肉丝味道不错。 来自《简明英汉词典》

15 Nazis   

n.（德国的）纳粹党员( Nazi的名词复数 )；纳粹主义

参考例句：

• The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Jews during World War Ⅱ. 纳粹必须为第二次世界大战中对犹太人的大屠杀负责。 来自《简明英汉词典》

16 purged   

清除（政敌等）( purge的过去式和过去分词 )； 涤除（罪恶等）； 净化（心灵、风气等）； 消除（错事等）的不良影响

参考例句：

• He purged his enemies from the Party. 他把他的敌人从党内清洗出去。
• The iron in the chemical compound must be purged. 化学混合物中的铁必须清除。

17 overthrow   

v.推翻，打倒，颠覆；n.推翻，瓦解，颠覆

参考例句：

• After the overthrow of the government,the country was in chaos.政府被推翻后，这个国家处于混乱中。
• The overthrow of his plans left him much discouraged.他的计划的失败使得他很气馁。

18 cohere   

vt.附着，连贯，一致

参考例句：

• The adornments do not cohere with the basic design.装饰物与设计的基调不协调。
• When you squeeze a handful of snow,the flakes cohere to make a snowball.你把一团雪捏紧，雪就黏合成雪球。

19 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

20 abiding   

adj.永久的，持久的，不变的

参考例句：

• He had an abiding love of the English countryside.他永远热爱英国的乡村。
• He has a genuine and abiding love of the craft.他对这门手艺有着真挚持久的热爱。

21 virtuous   

adj.有品德的，善良的，贞洁的，有效力的

参考例句：

• She was such a virtuous woman that everybody respected her.她是个有道德的女性，人人都尊敬她。
• My uncle is always proud of having a virtuous wife.叔叔一直为娶到一位贤德的妻子而骄傲。

22 extraordinarily   

adv.格外地；极端地

参考例句：

• She is an extraordinarily beautiful girl.她是个美丽非凡的姑娘。
• The sea was extraordinarily calm that morning.那天清晨，大海出奇地宁静。

23 tragic   

adj.悲剧的，悲剧性的，悲惨的

参考例句：

• The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
• Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。