she set her eyes on Istanbul,

她的眼线遍布伊斯坦布尔
Constantinople--they're the same city--on the straits,

君士坦丁堡同一个地方遍布海峡
on access to the Black Sea, that there was always

那是通向黑海门户的战略要地
going to be this drive of Russia to the straits.

俄罗斯对该海峡一直虎视耽耽
As you know, later Turkey allies with germany.

而正如你所知之后土耳其和德国联手
But the big rivalry is in terms of Russian influence,

但矛盾的关键在于俄国的影响力
destabilizing influence, seeing itself as the protector,

不稳定的影响力视自己为保护者
the mother of all of the Slav peoples,

为所有斯拉夫人的母亲
is a permanent force of destabilization in the austria-Hungarian Empire.

成为奥匈帝国永久性的隐患
Ironically, the guy who gets offed along with his wife,

讽刺的是那个和老婆一起完蛋的倒霉鬼
the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife,

费迪南大公和夫人
he was one of the more--he was a prejudiced figure in many ways,

他是他在很多方面都饱受偏见