那是一个绝妙的防守阵地。

It is an excellent defensive position.

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那场战斗的前夜，威灵顿沿一条长长的山脊背后占据了一个防守阵地。

The evening before the battle, Wellington took up a defensive position along, and to the rear of, a long ridge.

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顽固分子困兽犹斗，一些“激进人士”盼望发生动乱，或至少渴望将抗击盟军的战斗移往阿尔卑斯山的防守阵地，在那里进行最后一场英勇无惧的生死决战。

Diehards remained and some “ultras” longed for the apocalypse, or at least for taking the fight against the Allies to a redoubt in the Alps, there to die in a final courageous shoot-out.

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