The coastal cities of Liguria sit on narrow strips of land lying under steep mountains.

利古里亚的那些海滨城市坐落在陡峭山脉下的狭长地带。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

On such steep mountains, how could they build such a wide canal?

这么陡的山上，居然还有这么宽的一条渠？

youdao

No matter how steep mountains, always leave a climbing Road as the horns of people.

不管多么险峻的高山，总是为不畏艰难的人留下一条攀登的路。

youdao

Combat Outpost Keating had been built at the bottom of three steep mountains, providing the enemy from day one with a tactical advantage.

CNN: Clint Romesha, the bravest of the brave

Like so many times before, Rob was up front -- leading a patrol of two dozen Afghans and Americans on a narrow trail along the valley floor, the steep mountains towering over them.

WHITEHOUSE: Medal of Honor for Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller

But whereas the base in the Korangal was situated about halfway up a mountainside, in a former lumberyard, the one in Kamdesh would sit in a cup within the valley's deepest cleft, ringed by three steep mountains that formed part of the 500-mile-long Hindu Kush mountain range.

CNN: Excerpt: 'The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor'