原文
"Just at the conventional moment, when all hope had fled, and the
conductor was holding out his box to the passenger next to me, I
suddenly remembered where I had put that wretched coin of the realm.
I hadn't swallowed it after all. I meekly fished it out of the index
finger of my glove and poked it in the box. I smiled at everybody and
felt that it was a beautiful world."
語彙など
- conventional:常套的な
- flee:消え失せる
- conductor:車掌
- wretched:惨めな,哀れな
- realm:君主国の領土
- swallow:〜を飲み込む
- meekly:おとなしく
- fish out:取り出す
- index finger:人差し指
- poke:突っ込む