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８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-20At last the valley broadened out, and our way lay through rice and cornfields. It became more and more difficult to find good hideout for the daytime. Once we were discovered during the morning, and as the peasants kept asking us all manner of indiscreet questions, we packed up our traps and hurried onward. We had not yet found a new hiding place when we met eight men, who shouted to us to stop. Our luck seemed at last to have deserted us. They asked us innumerable questions, and I kept on giving the same answer, namely that we were pilgrims from a distant province. To our great astonishment, we seemed somehow to have stood the test, for after a while they let us go on our way. We could hardly believe that we had done with them, and long after we had moved on, we thought we heard pursuing footsteps.
broadened out：広がった
hideout：隠れ場所
peasants：農民たち
all manner of：あらゆる種類の
indiscreet：ぶしつけな
packed up：（出発のために）荷造りをした
traps：身の回りの品々（複数形で）
hurried onward：先を急いだ
deserted：〜から去る
innumerable：無数の
namely：すなわち
pilgrim：巡礼
province：（英領インドの）州
stood the test：試験に合格した
we had done with them：ことが済んだ、という意味だと思います。
moved on：出発した