In Laos, a poor and mountainous place where a quarter of the population lives on less than a dollar a day, it is being awaited with a sense of foreboding.

但是老挝，这个贫穷的山区国家，几乎有四分之一的人口每日生活费不超过一美元的国家，却怀着一种不祥的预感等待着。

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The mountainous nation has always been a tough place to scratch out a living.

山地国家一向是生活艰难的地方。

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The area where the plane was reported found is so mountainous that "it is basically a miracle that there was a place to land," Brockman said.

报道中发现飞机的地方是个多山地区。布鲁克曼说：“在那能有地方降落简直是个奇迹。”

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And we're expecting most of the conflict is going to take place in a mountainous stretch that goes across three of those provinces: Helmand, Uruzgan and Zabul.

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Mr Pathak adds that Nepal's mountainous terrain also makes it an ideal place to cultivate coffee.

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