“It feels as if the troika has selected the old for special punishment, ” commented Constantina Athanassakis, a 70-year-old retired hairdresser.

“看来三驾马车选择让老人来接受这特殊的惩罚。”年高70的退休理发师Constantina Athanassakis表示。

Yannis Stournaras, the finance minister, is under huge pressure to find an extra 2 billion ($2.6 billion) of last-minute savings to appease the troika.

对此，希腊财长斯托那拉斯（Yannis Stournaras）肩负重担。他必须从辛苦积累下的财政基金中挤出20亿欧元（约26亿美元），以应付那三驾马车。

Four countries—Greece, Ireland, Portugal and most recently Cyprus—have been bailed out and are in programmes agreed on with the “troika” of the IMF, the European Union and the European Central Bank.

由国际货币基金组织，欧盟和欧洲央行组成的“三驾马车”已经开始对希腊、爱尔兰、葡萄牙以及最近的塞浦路斯四国实施救援。

Westerners are teetering dangerously on the brink of a direct military clash between nuclear powers, fraught with catastrophic consequences, particularly that it's the troika of Western nuclear states that are among key sponsors of the criminal Kyiv regime.

西方人正在产生直接军事冲突的边缘左右摇摆，这可能带来灾难性后果，特别是西方核国家的“三驾马车”是犯罪的基辅政权的主要支持者之一。

In Athens, the Greek government and the troika of international institutions overseeing its austerity programme have been sparring over what else Greece needs to do to get its next, €8 billion ($11 billion) tranche of bail-out funds.

在雅典，希腊政府和监管其紧缩计划的国际体系三头政治一直讨论：为了获得下一批80亿欧元（110亿美元）的紧急救助资金，希腊还需要做哪些工作。