Garcia was somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba - no one knew where.

加西亚将军隐藏在古巴辽阔的崇山峻岭中——没有人知道确切的地点。

Logic dictated that if ancient people were to be found at all, it would be on a large and long-populated landmass, not in the comparative fastness of an archipelago.

从逻辑上说，若要发现古代人类的遗迹，应该到地域辽阔，很久以前就有人类活动的大陆，而不是空间相对狭小的群岛。

Copper, lead, gold, and silver in fabulous quantities were unearthed by the restless prospectors who left no plain or mountain fastness unexplored.

焦躁不安的探矿者挖掘出数量惊人的铜、铅、金和银，他们在平原或山区的每个要塞都进行了勘探。

And they will fight again and win! I tell you General Johnston cannot be dislodged! The mountain fastnesses have always been the refuge and the strong forts of invaded peoples from ancient times.

他们还要这样打下去，还要这样战胜敌人！我告诉你，约翰斯顿将军是谁也撼不动的！自古以来，险峻的山峡就是遭受侵略的人民隐蔽和防守的坚强堡垒。

A leading British ethno-biologist, wrote the Economist in 1995, thinks a megatherium, a sort of giant ground sloth which may stand as high as a giraffe ... may lurk in the fastnesses of the Amazon basin.

“一位著名的英国民族生物学家认为，”《经济学家》杂志l995年写道，“有一种高如长颈鹿的大地懒，有可能出没在亚马孙河流域僻静的丛林里。”

The English have not been able to secure complete dominion over this territory, which is subjected to the influence of rajahs, whom it is almost impossible to reach in their inaccessible mountain fastnesses.

英国的统治法规在土王的势力范围内就不能正常执行，至于在文迪亚群山中那些无法接近的地方，那就更加无法管辖了。