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４月２３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-37Meanwhile I had begun to occupy my mind with plans for escaping once more. I made friends with an Indian guard who cooked for us and seemed to inspire confidence. I handed him my maps, my compass, and my money, as I knew that we should be searched before being readmitted to the camp, and that it would be impossible to smuggle these things in with us. So I told the Indian that I would come again in the following spring and collect my possessions from him. He was to ask for leave in May and wait for me. This he solemnly promised to do. So now we had to go back to the camp, and it was only my resolve to get free once more that enabled me to endure the bitterness of my disappointment.
Marchese was still sick and could not walk, so they gave him a horse to ride. We had another agreeable interruption, being entertained on our way by the Maharajah of Tehri-Garhwal, who treated us most hospitably. Then we returned to our barbed-wire entanglements.
The episode of my flight had left a visible mark on my person, which appeared when on the way back I bathed in a warm spring. There I found my hair coming out in handfuls. It appears that the dye I had used for my Indian disguise was deleterious.
As a result of my involuntary depilation and all the fatigues I had gone through, my comrades in the camp found it hard to recognize me when I arrived.
Meanwhile：その間にも.
guard：見張り
inspire：〜の印象を人に与える
confidence：信頼
hand：手渡す
him：an Indian guardを指します
we：（この辺の文章には私以外出てきておりませんが）脱走した捕虜たちのことですね
readmit：再び入る
the camp：捕虜収容所のことです
it：to smuggle these things in with usを指します
smuggle：そっと持ち込む
these things：my maps, my compass, and my moneyのことです
in：の後にthe campが省略されていると思われます
following spring：翌春
collect：回収する
possession：所有物
be(was) to 〜：〜することになっている、〜する予定である
ask for leave：休暇を願い出る
solemnly：まじめに、神に誓って
it：that enabled me to endure the bitterness of my disappointmentこの部分を指すと思われます
resolve：決心
get free：脱走する
endure：耐える
bitterness：苦さ、苦しさ、悲痛
they：当局側（主人公たちを捕まえた人たち）
agreeable：好ましい、愉快な
interruption：中断
Maharajah：インド主要土候国の王
Tehri-Garhwal：地名
entertain：もてなす
hospitably：手厚く
barbed-wire：有刺鉄線
entanglements：鉄条網
flight：逃走
person：容姿・外見
which：直前のmy personを指します
coming out：（髪が）抜ける
handfuls：一掴み
appear：と思われる
dye：染料（ここでは毛染め）
disguise：変装
deleterious：有害な
involuntary：不本意な
depilation：脱毛
had gone through：これまでに通り抜けてきた
comrade：仲間
it：hard to recognize me when I arrivedを指します