THE area between the Black Sea and the Caspian is beautiful, fertile, mountainous—and much fought over, most recently in August 2008 when Russia and Georgia went to war.

高加索地区位于黑海和里海之间，它美丽，富饶，多山——也充满战乱，最近的一场战乱是2008年8月俄罗斯和格鲁吉亚之间爆发的战争。

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'The sea [bed] is not only deep but mountainous,' Arslanian said.

当地海床不仅非常深，而且崎岖多山。

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Some people like the mountainous majesty of Taishan, some people like the level of the lake as a mirror, some people like enchanting scenery of the Hainan Island, but I like the magnificent sea.

有人喜欢峰峦雄伟的泰山，有人喜欢水平如镜的西湖，有人喜欢风景迷人的海南岛，但我却喜欢波澜壮阔的大海。

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Mr Bygott said the sea was "quite mountainous" and the lifeboat crew had "certainly" saved their lives, rowing over the rocks to pluck them to safety.

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Flanked by the mountainous Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, the slender state descends from tea plantation-cloaked slopes to golden beaches that edge into vivid blue seas.

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Fresh from constructing a sea-level canal through the flat Egyptian sand, de Lesseps was determined, without having set foot in Panama and after only the vaguest of topographical studies, that his project through the mountainous central American isthmus would also be a sea-level canal, requiring no locks to cope with changes in altitude.

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