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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 :
Into Tibet-8The first village on the far side of the Himalayas in Trashigang, consisting of just a few houses grouped around a fortress-like monastery surrounded by a moat. Here we again found an ill-disposed population, but they showed no astonishment at seeing us and gave us no real trouble. This time we had arrived just in the season in which Indian traders stream into the country to buy up the wool. We had no difficulty in obtaining provisions from these people. Aufschnaiter tried in vain to turn his gold bracelet into cash. Had he done so, he would have been able to afford to push on directly into Inner Tibet without touching Gartok. During the whole of our march, we were repeatedly stopped by prosperous-looking mounted Tibetans, who asked us what we had to sell. As we had no servants and were driving a pack donkey, they could not imagine that we were anything but traders. We became convinced every Tibetan, whether poor or rich, is a born trader, and exchange and barter his greatest passion.
Trashigang：地名
fortress：要塞
monastery：寺院、修道院
moat：濠
ill-disposed：たちの悪い
they：an ill-disposed populationのこと
buy up：買い占める
these people ：Indian tradersのこと
Aufschnaiter：人名
in vain：いたずらに、むなしく
afford to 〜：〜する余裕がある、〜しても差し支えない
Gartok：地名
prosperous：裕福な
mounted：馬に乗った
convince：確信する
barter：物々交換する