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１１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-26But our contentment was short-lived. At our next halt we were disturbed by men in search of wood. They found Marchese lying half - naked because of the great heat. He had grown so thin that one could count his ribs, and he looked very sick indeed. We were, of course, objects of suspicion, as we were not in the usual pilgrims' roadhouses. The Indians invited us to their farmhouse, but that we didn't want to do, and used Marchese's ill health as an excuse for not going with them. They went away then, but soon were back, and it was now clear that they took us for fugitives. They tried to blackmail us by saying that there was an Englishman in the neighborhood with eight soldiers looking for a couple of escaped prisoners, and that he had promised them a reward for any information they could give him. But they promised to say nothing if we gave them money. I stood firm and insisted that I was a doctor from Kashmir, in proof of which I showed them my medicine chest.
contentment：満足
short-lived：一時的、短命な
halt：休息
n search of wood：薪を探している
grow 〜：〜になる
pilgrims' roadhouse：巡礼路沿いの宿
excuse：言い訳
fugitive：逃亡者
blackmail：恐喝する、ゆする
stood firm：断固たる態度を取った
Kashmir：地名
chest：収納箱