14-3-60
The professional life of the imperial bureaucrat could be extraordinarily interesting; his personal life usually was not. Unless they were lucky enough to be posted to a metropolitan center like Calcutta or Bombay, the ICS officers led a lonely existence in remote towns with few other Englishmen around, and yearned incessantly for the motherland. Their wives were even more miserable, and some naturally took to having affairs, especially in the hill station of Simila, where the thin mountain air was reputed to encourage promiscuity. As Gilmour notes, almost all the ICS men couldn't wait to retire, collect their pension and get back to Britain. Yet once home, a strange fondness for India would often afflict them, and they would spend their evenings sunk in a club chair with a gin and tonic, boring everyone with endless tales of the Punjab.

A. 어휘
the professional life of the imperial bureaucrat 帝國(제국)공무원의 직업생활.
post 근무지를 배치하다. metropolitan 대도시의. lead-led-led
lead a lonely existence 고독한 삶을 살다. yearned for 憧憬(동경)하다.
incessantly 끊임없이. even 비교급강조부사. even more miserable 더욱더 비참한.
take to ...에 빠지다, 몰두하다. affairs 情事(정사).
the hill station(인도에 있는 유럽인의) 高原(고원) 피서지. reputed 유명하다.
promiscuity 난잡, 混淫(혼음), 亂婚(난혼).
wait to retire...→wait until they retire... collect...and get back 은퇴해서 연금을 모아서 돌아갈 때까지 기다리다.
pension 연금. afflict 괴롭히다, 시달리다.
would often afflict them 종종 그들을 떠나지 않고 괴롭히곤 하였다.
cf. would→과거의 불규칙적 습관. sink-sunk-sunk 가라앉다.
bore-bored-bored 지겹게 하다.

B. 구문
-Yet once home→Yet once they were home.
[그러나 일단 귀국했을 때는. cf. once 일단...하면은.(접속사)]
-sunk in a club chair . . .tales of the Punjab.→as they were sunk, and they bore →being sunk. . . boring (분사구문의 부대상황). cf.부대상황=동시동작(...을 하면서).
[진토닉을 마시면서, 클럽(술집)의자에 파묻혀서 모든 사람을 지루하게 하면서.]

14-4-61
Gilmour is out to redeem the ICS, and the portrait that emerges in his book is of bureaucracy that was efficient, fair-minded and honest as its reputation suggests. This is probably an exaggeration. Gilmour does not gloss over the famines that ravaged India repeatedly during the British Raj, killing millions; yet he calls them failures of policy-makers at the top, and seems too eager to exculpate the ICS men who were in charge of arranging relief for the stricken districts. Some of them clearly failed to do their jobs properly. But while the ICS may not have been quite as brilliant as Gilmour would have us believe, it deserves its mystique. Whatever their faults, the officers were honest. They have vast opportunities to be corrupt, but with few exceptions, they did not abuse their power in order to enrich themselves. In the light of staggering dishonesty of so many of the men who succeeded them after India's independence, the incorruptibility of these innocents abroad makes them worthy of some degree of nostalgic respect.

A. 어휘
redeem 되찾다, 구하다. is out to redeem 구하려고 나서다. portrait 초상화.
emerge 나타나다. efficient 능률적인, 유능한. exaggeration 과장.
gloss 註釋(주석)을 달다, 자세히 기술하다. ravage 피해를 주다, 황폐화하다.
the British Raj 영국의 인도지배. exculpate 無罪(무죄)로 하다, 해명하다.
too eager to exculpate the ICS men 인도행정청 직원들을 지나치게 열심히 변호한다.
arrange 마련하다, 계획하다. in charge of arranging relief 구조실시를 책임지다.
strike-struck-struck(stricken) 강타하다. stricken districts 피해지역.
as brilliant as Gilmour would have us believe. cf. have 사역동사. Gilmour가 우리로 하여금 믿도록 만들기를 원하는 만큼 훌륭하다. deserve ...을 받을 만하다.
faults 결점. with few exceptions 극소수의 예외를 제외하고.
abuse their power 그들의 권력을 濫用(남용)하다. staggering 깜짝 놀라게 하는.
in the light of ...에 비추어, 고려하여 보면. succeed 계승하다.
innocents 깨끗한 사람들, 죄 없는 사람들.
worthy of ...하기에 족한, 어울리는, 가치 있는.
nostalgic 回向(회향)의, 과거를 그리워하는.

B. 구문
-In the light of staggering. . . nostalgic respect.
[인도의 독립 후에 ICS관리들을 계승한, 너무나 많은 인도 관리들의 놀라운 부정행위를 고려하여 보면, 해외에서 근무한 이 깨끗한 사람들(행정청 영국 관료들)의 청렴결백은 그들로 하여금 어느 정도의 존경을 받을만하게 만든다.(현재의 인도의 부패한 관리보다는 옛날 식민지 시절의 깨끗했던 영국관리가 존경을 받을 만하고 그립다.)]