Andrew Byrne is a correspondent for the Financial Times, covering the Balkans.

安德鲁·伯恩是《金融时报》驻干半岛的记者。

I'm Carl Azuz at the CNN Center. First up today, disaster in the Balkans.

我是位于CNN中心的卡·阿祖兹。今天首先让我们关注干半岛的灾难。

Andrew Byrne covers the Balkans for the Financial Times. Andrew, thank you.

以上是《金融时报》驻干半岛的记者安德鲁·伯恩带来的报道。安德鲁，谢谢你。

Competition was especially sharp in the Balkans. This was the area of Europe between the Adriatic and Black Seas.

干半岛的竞争尤为激烈，这是亚得里亚海和黑海之间的欧洲地区。

Opposition demonstrations have intensified after taking place for a number of months in the Balkan states.

干半岛诸国的反对派游行已经持续了数 烈。

Look at the horror show of the Balkans in the 1990s.

将介绍20世纪90年代干半岛上发生的恐怖的事情。

Heavy snow wreaked havoc in the Balkans as temperatures went down to minus 4 degrees in parts of Bosnia.

干半岛的大雪对那里造成了大破坏，部分波斯尼亚地区，气温已经降低到了零下4摄氏度。

I worked in a refugee camp in the Balkans during the Kosovo War.

科索沃战争期间， 我干半岛的一个难民营工作。

In the southeast of Europe, Bulgaria sits at the east end of the Balkan Peninsula.

欧洲的东南部，保加利亚位于干半岛的东端。

Ethiopians believe that the gods are black and flat-nosed, Thracians imagine them to be blue-eyed and fair-haired.

衣索比亚人认为天神是扁鼻子的黑人，史瑞思(干半岛东部的古国)人则认为神有金发蓝眼。

Let's face it. In the Western Balkans the conditions in general, socio-economic or political, are not ideal.

让我们面对现实吧。干半岛西部的一般状况下, 社会经济或政治并不理想。

Yugoslavia filled much of Europe's Balkan Peninsula during most of the 20th century.

20 世纪的大部分时间里， 南斯拉夫占据了欧洲干半岛的大部分地区。

He was born a peasant somewhere in the Balkans and than rose to became emperor in 527.

他出生干半岛某个地方的农民，然后 527 年成为皇帝。

There is high awareness in Brussels and among the European countries of the fragility of the economies of the Western Balkans.

布鲁塞和欧洲国家对干半岛西部国家的经济脆弱程度有很高的认识。

The small Balkan country of Macedonia contributes the newest brains, thanks to a Columbia faculty member from there who helped arrange it.

位于干半岛的小国马其顿提供了最新的大脑，这要归功于哥伦比亚大学的一位教员，他帮助安排了这项工作。

A BBC correspondent says Brussels is reaffirming its often-doubted commitment to the western Balkans on nudging Bosnian politicians towards necessary political reforms.

一名 BBC 记者表示，布鲁塞重申其对西干半岛的承诺，即推动波斯尼亚政治家进行必要的政治改革。

The Bosnian Serb member of the country's tripartite presidency warned that an appeal would provoke a new political crisis in the Balkans.

这个分成三部分的国家的波斯尼亚塞族领导人警告称，上诉将会引发干半岛一场新的政治危机。

Nowhere has the fighting been fiercer in the worst war to hit Europe since the Balkans, than here.Donetsk, once proud Sergey Prokofiev International Airport.

没有任何战事比欧洲干半岛经历的最为惨烈严酷。顿涅茨克曾经引以为傲的谢盖普罗柯菲耶夫国际机场受到致命性打击。

In addition to being close to cocaine production, drug smugglers from Mexico, Colombia and the Balkans in Europe have also set up operations in Ecuador.

除了靠近可卡因生产外，来自墨西哥、哥伦比亚和欧洲干半岛的毒品走私者也厄瓜多开展活动。

This one, St. Sofia's is on the country's 1,000 denar banknote, and the city itself for centuries was known as the Jerusalem of the Balkans.

这座教堂叫圣索菲亚教堂，1000第纳的马其顿钞票上可以看到这座教堂的图样。数百年来，奥赫里德本身一向被称为干半岛的耶路撒冷。