stans

THE Central Asian "stans", as Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and.

经常来到中亚五“斯坦”的外交官和石油工人对此地并不陌生。它们是：乌兹别克斯坦，土库曼斯坦，哈萨克斯坦，吉尔吉斯斯坦，塔吉克斯坦。

In many of the cities and towns in the Stans you have to deal with manholes in the middle of the street.

在城市和城镇中的斯坦斯你必须处理在沙井街道中间有很多。

The convoy is no longer the huge source of interest, enjoyment and excitement, to the locals, that it was in the Stans and China.

不像在中国和斯坦斯，对当地人来说，这个车队已不再是巨大的利益来源，享受和兴奋。

The ´stans vary (Tajikistan is poor, Kazakhstan go-getting). But all have slim prospects of joining the EU in the lifetime of anyone reading this article.

五个斯坦国的情况并不完全相同(塔吉克斯坦颇是贫困，哈萨克斯坦则野心勃勃)，不过有一点是一样的，在阅读本文的诸公此生，很难看到它们加入欧盟的那一天。

This has been only one cause of prickly relations between the "stans", which are linked by Soviet-era roads, gas pipelines, electricity grids and other infrastructure.

前苏联时代的道路、天然气管道、电网及其他基础设施连接还联系着“斯坦”们，边境线问题仅仅是他们之间棘手关系的一个原因。