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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-23Soon after this incident, we were so overcome by thirst that we simply could not go on and had to lie down, although it was long before dawn. When morning came, I climbed down the steep slope alone in search of water, which I found. The next three days and nights were a little better; our path lay through dry fir woods that were so lonely that we seldom met Indians in them, and ran very little risk of discovery.
On the twelfth day of our flight, a great moment came. We found ourselves on the banks of the Ganges. The most pious Hindu could not have more deeply been moved by the sight of the sacred stream than we were. We could now follow the Pilgrims' Road up the Ganges to its source - and that would greatly lessen the fatigues of our journey, or so we imagined. We decided that, having got so far and so safely by our system of night travel, we would not risk a change, so we continued to lie up by day and move only by night.
were so overcome by thirst：あまりに喉が渇いて
simply：全く（強調の意味で）
go on：進む
lie down：横になる
steep：急な
in search of 〜：〜を探す
fir：樅（モミ）
them：樅の林を指します
ran very little risk 〜：〜の危険をほとんど冒さなくてよかった
flight：（この場合）逃亡
banks：河岸
pious：敬虔な
been moved：感動した
that：前の文、We could now follow the Pilgrims' Road up the Ganges to its sourceを指します。
lessen：減らす
got：辿り着いた
so far：ここまで（こんな遠くまで、という感じなのかもです）
lie up：休む