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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-25Arriving at the next store, I walked in holding my money as ostentatiously as possible in my hand. That made a good impression. Then I told the storekeeper that I had to buy provisions for ten people, in order to lend plausibility to an offer to purchase forty pounds of meal, sugar, and onions.
The shop people took more interest in examining my paper money than in my person, and so after a while I was able to leave the shop with heavy load of provisions. The next day was a happy one. At last we had enough to eat, and the Pilgrims' Road seemed to us, after our long treks across country, a mere promenade.
ostentatiously：これ見よがしに、仰々しく
storekeeper：店主
provisions：（複数形で）食料
lend plausibility to 〜：〜をもっともらしくする
he Pilgrims' Road：巡礼路
trek：旅
promenade：散歩