the Eastern Bloc

(formerly) communist countries of Eastern Europe considered as a group （旧时）东方集团（东欧共产主义国家, 视为一整体）.

the Christian Era, the Church of England, the Civil Service, the class struggle (also the class war), the Communist Party, the Conservative Party, the Consolidated Fund, the Coptic Church, the Corn Laws, the damned, the Dark Ages, the Dark Continent, the deceased, the deep South, the departed, the Depression, the disinherited, the dispossessed, the dog-star, the East End, the elect, the electric chair, the English Channel (also the Channel), the Eternal City, the evening star, the fair sex, the faithful, the fallen, the Far East, the Far West, the few, the fine print, the first person, the First World War (also World War I), the foregoing, the former, the front bench, the front line, the generation gap, The Globe,