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strategically situated and easy to defend · strategic location

险要
xiǎn yào
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dangerous and difficult (path)险阻xiǎn zǔdangerous · sinister · vicious险恶xiǎn è(of terrain) mountainous; rugged · (of a situation) precarious; daunting险峻xiǎn jùnmountain pass关隘guān àilit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain虎踞龙盘hǔ jù lóng pána forbidding strategic point · like a coiling dragon and crouching tiger龙蟠虎踞lóng pán hǔ jù