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５月９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-14We crossed the first ridge on the evening after our escape. At the top, we rested for a while and saw 3,000 feet below us the countless twinkling lights of the internment camp. At eleven o’clock, the lights all went out together, and only the searchlights around the camp gave an idea of its enormous extent.
This was the first time in my life that I really understood what it meant to be free. We enjoyed this glorious feeling and thought with sympathy of the two thousand POWs forced to live down there behind the wall of wire.
ridge：尾根
on the evening after our escape：（話の流れから言って）脱走の翌夕
3,000 feet：約1000メートル
went out：（灯火が）消えた
together：一斉に
its：キャンプを指します
This：尾根に上り抑留キャンプを見下ろした時、を示していると思われます
glorious：輝かしい、素晴らしい
sympathy：同情
POWs：戦争捕虜達
there：主人公達が立っている尾根のことを指します