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Many progressive, westernized Albanians had continued to entertain hopes for a rational settlement of the crisis.

许多改良派的、西化的阿尔巴尼亚人原本一直抱有危机会理性化解的希望。

Music has always been a potent means of national expression for Albanians.

音乐对于阿尔巴尼亚来说是表现其民族特征的一种有效方式。

It said it would support such a package only if it were agreed between Serbia and Kosovo's Albanians.

并扬言，仅支持塞尔维亚和科索沃的阿族都赞同的一组提议。

In the end it has been a pell-mell, 10-day rush to be ready for a day that has been spoken of throughout Kosovo Albanians' lifetimes.

经过十天忙乱的准备之后，最终迎来这一天的讲演，对科索沃的所有阿族人来说，他们一生都在等待这个日子。

The Albanians in Kosovo used to have rights before all this happened.

在所有的事情发生之前，科索沃的阿族人享有权利。

The irony is that, even if the court were to find against the Kosovars, Serbia would be quite unable to absorb 2m hostile Albanians.

具有讽刺意味的，即使法院判决科索沃独立为非法，塞尔维亚也无法同化二百万敌对的阿尔巴尼亚人。

In the next few weeks Bosnians and Albanians are expected to be granted visa-free travel to Europe's Schengen area.

在接下来的几周里波斯尼亚人和阿尔巴尼亚人有望免签证前往欧洲申根国旅游。

For now, Albanians can only hope their leaders will end their power plays and save the country themselves, before any more blood is spilled.

目前，阿尔巴尼亚人只能希望他们的领导人将结束自己的权力游戏，并保存自己的国家，在任何更多的血液溅。

They would last for eleven weeks, as Milosevic continued to kill Kosovar Albanians and drive almost one million people from their homes.

此次军事行动将持续11周，因为米洛舍维奇仍在继续屠杀科索沃阿族人，并迫使近100万人背井离乡。

Yet a few hundred metres south, across the River Ibar, Albanians stroll around in the sunshine.

而不远的南边几百米处，伊巴尔河的对岸，阿尔巴尼亚人却在阳光下徜徉。

Just like the Albanians, Italians and Hispanics who live nearby, its patrons are Americans.

就像附近的阿尔巴尼亚人，意大利人和西班牙人一样，美国人也经常光顾这个俱乐部。

The last round of Serb aggression had sparked another exodus of refugees and had increased the desire of Kosovar Albanians for independence.

塞族人的最后一轮侵袭造成又一次难民大量逃离，并增强了科索沃阿族人寻求独立的祈望。

Still, Bosnians and Albanians know that it is only a matter of time before they too qualify for visa-free travel.

不过，波黑人和阿尔巴尼亚人明白，拥有同等的免签证旅行资格，这只是个时间问题。

Albanians in the Balkans on the ancient inhabitants were descendants of Ilya. 4 century AD, was a part of the Eastern Roman Empire.

阿尔巴尼亚人是巴尔干半岛上的古老居民伊利亚人的后裔。公元4世纪末曾是东罗马帝国一部分。

Some 90% of the population consists of ethnic Albanians who demand nothing less than independence.

其中大约90%的人口由阿尔巴尼亚裔组成，他们只想独立，别无他求。

For a start, it asserted that the Albanians were relative newcomers to the territory, settling it only in the 16th century.

在开始时，它声称相对而言阿尔巴尼亚人是这个地区的新人，他们是在16世纪才在这里定居的。

Now Albanians are chuckling at headlines that have them dancing in the mouth of the crocodile (the European Union).

现在的阿尔巴尼亚人则看着关于他们在鳄鱼（欧盟）嘴边跳舞的新闻忍俊不禁。

Before, we were somehow like shock absorbers between Serbs and Albanians, but now we have our backs to the walls.

以前，某种意义上我们就是塞尔维亚和阿尔巴尼亚的减震器（shockabsorber），但现在我们陷入绝境、走投无路了。

Danes in Sweden or Albanians in Greece have little trouble integrating into the relatively familiar societies next door.

居住在瑞士的丹麦人，或者旅居希腊的阿拉伯人可以比较容易地融入到临国那相对熟悉的社会环境中。

And if Serbia and Croatia can hand out passports in Bosnia, why should not Albania issue passports to Kosovar Albanians?

而如果塞尔维亚人和克罗地亚人能在波黑出示护照，为什么阿尔巴尼亚人不能给科索沃阿族人发放护照呢？