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12月11日出題分
あまりなじみの無い単語・熟語をちょっと解説。
Seven Years in Tibet :
Internment-5Plans for escape in these conditions and with these objectives needed the most careful preparation. By now we had given up hope of a speedy ending to the war, and so there was nothing for it - if we wished to get away - but to organize systematically. Flight through the thickly populated regions of India was out of the question; for that one would need plenty of money and a perfect knowledge of English - and I had neither. So it is easy to imagine that my preference was for the empty spaces of Tibet. And I thought of being on the Himalayas - and felt that even if my plan failed, it would be worth having a spell of freedom in the high mountains.
objective：目的地
careful：念入りに、と訳すといいと思います。
by now：今となっては
there was nothing for it：it は、escape を指します。
get away：逃れる
organize：計画する
systematically：組織的かつ細かな
flight through：通り抜けること
out of the question：お話にならない、まったくもって不可能
preference：選択
empty space：（この場合）人のいない土地
Himalaya：ヒマラヤ
a spell of：しばらくの間の