The second Chechen war, which started in 1999 and still fizzles on now, made that mountainous sliver of territory in the northern Caucasus the most dangerous place on the planet for a journalist.

99年爆发的第二次车臣战争余烟尚未散尽，对于任何记者而言，北高加索山区的小片地带胜似全球最危险的禁地。

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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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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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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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