Languages in East Asia tend to have tonal vowels, and those of the north-eastern Caucasus are known for consonantal complexity: Ubykh has 78 consonant sounds.
东亚的语言往往有带声调的元音，而东北高加索地区的语言以辅音复杂而闻名：尤比克语有78个辅音。
Today Georgia has reinvented itself as the star of the Caucasus.
今天，格鲁吉亚把自己重新塑造成高加索地区一颗新星。
A fresh spate of killings hit Chechnya, in Russia's north Caucasus.
位于俄罗斯北部高加索的车臣境内又发生一起大量人员死亡事件。
For most people outside the Caucasus, it is more of a forgotten one.
对于高加索地区外的大部分人而言，这更像个被遗忘的问题。
Some regard Georgia and the Caucasus as small, faraway and so unimportant.
有些人认为格鲁吉亚和高加索地区不单渺小、遥远而且重要性很低。
Eleven years on, the north Caucasus is still one of Russia's biggest headaches.
11年以来，北高加索地区仍然是俄罗斯最头疼得问题之一。
But it has barely noticed what is happening in Russia's troubled north Caucasus.
但是却很少有人注意到在俄罗斯问题多多的北高加索地区正在发生的事情。
Georgia counts in the Caucasus; it also has vl pipelines that cross its territory.
格鲁吉亚在高加索地区举足轻重，境内也有重要的输油管道穿过。
Russia has issued a blunt challenge to the West to stay out of its Caucasus backyard.
俄罗斯直截了当地向西方发难，要它们远离俄罗斯的高加索后院。
Georgia counts in the Caucasus; it also has vital pipelines that cross its territory.
格鲁吉亚在高加索地区至关重要；同时生死攸关的能源管线贯穿其疆土。
Meanwhile the repercussions of this small war in the Caucasus will spread a lot wider.
高加索上此次小战注定带来远为广泛的影响。
The north Caucasus may take up only a small space on the map, but it looms large for Russia.
北高加索在地图上或许微不足道，但是对俄罗斯来说至关重要。
The same applies the more recent and better-known conflict in the Caucasus—between Russia and Georgia.
这同样适用于更近期发生的、更广为人知的俄罗斯与格鲁吉亚在高加索地区的冲突。
Most worryingly, the violence in the North Caucasus has spread from Chechnya to the rest of the region.
更让人忧虑的是，北高加索地区的动乱从车臣扩散到其他地区。
Mr Medvedev has described the situation in the north Caucasus as one of the greatest threats facing Russia.
梅德韦杰夫先生已将北高加索局势形容为俄罗斯面临的最大威胁之一。
He said that Armenia is an important cooperation partner and reliable friend of China in the outer Caucasus.
他说，亚美尼亚是中国在外高加索地区的重要合作伙伴和可靠朋友。
But as a clear, brief guide to the countries of the south Caucasus, it would be hard to do better than this book.
但是作为一本介绍南高加索的指南书，它既清晰又明了，实为一本难以逾越的佳作。
The scientists focused on Mezmaiskaya Cave, a key site in the northern Caucasus Mountains within European Russia.
科学家重点研究玛兹梅斯卡亚洞穴，俄罗斯欧洲北高加索山脉上的一个关键地点。
The corrosive mistrust of the state is a problem for Russia as a whole-it is just more extreme in the north Caucasus.
对于国家不信任，很有害，这是俄罗斯总体上的问题。只是在北高加索地区更加极端而已。
Despite Soviet-era attempts to force residents of the Caucasus tospeak Russian, many Caucasian languages thrive today.
尽管当时的苏联试图强迫高加索居民说俄语，但许多高加索语言到今天依然繁荣。
they formed an arc of instability from Belarus in the north-east, round the Caucasus and along North Africa to Morocco.
它们形成一个不稳定的拱形，从东北部的白俄罗斯，绕过高加索山脉，顺着北非一直延伸到摩洛哥。
The Soviet Union had three years left when rumbles hinting at its imminent collapse began to reverberate in the Caucasus.
苏联解体三年前，高加索地区可谓山雨欲来风满楼。
The son of an agricultural mechanic in the North Caucasus, Mikhail Gorbachev wasn't exactly tapped for greatness at birth.
米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫是北高加索一个农业机械工的儿子。
The number of “missing girls” doubled in Europe and Central Asia (mainly in the Balkans and the Caucasus), from a low base.
在欧洲和中亚“失踪女性”的数量从原本的低基数翻了一倍（主要是在巴尔干半岛和高加索地区）。
In the past such bespredel (extreme lawlessness) was mostly restricted to Chechnya and a few other parts of the north Caucasus.
过去，这类极端犯罪事件大多发生在车臣及的北高加索另外几个地方。
The scientists also analyzed fossilized bone collections from ancient hominid sites in Spain, the U.K. and the Caucasus region.
科学家们还分析了从西班牙、英国和高加索地区的古人类遗址处出土的骨骼化石。
The Russian capital has been repeatedly rocked by attacks over the last years blamed on militants from its Northern Caucasus region.
近几年内，北部高加索地区的激进分子频频在俄罗斯首都发动袭击。
The Russian capital has been repeatedly rocked by attacks over the last years blamed on militants from its Northern Caucasus region.
近几年内，北部高加索地区的激进分子频频在俄罗斯首都发动袭击。
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