the Iron Curtain

(fig 比喻) the frontier separating the former USSR and other communist countries of Eastern Europe from the West, seen by the West as a barrier to information and trade 铁幕（从西方观点看前苏联及东欧共产党国家与西方之间在信息、 贸易等方面的屏障）: life behind the Iron Curtain 铁幕後的生活 * [attrib 作定语] Iron Curtain countries, ie countries of the former Soviet bloc 铁幕国家（即前苏联集团各国）.

the home front, the Home Guard, the Home Office, the homeless, the House of Commons (also the Commons), the House of Lords (also the Lords), the House of Representatives, the Houses of Parliament, the human race, the Immaculate Conception, the impossible, the Industrial Revolution, the inevitable, the Infinite, the infirm, the initiated, the Inquisition, the insane, the insured, the Iron Age, the jet set, the jitters, the Jolly Roger, the just, the kiss of life, the Labour Party, the Lake District (also the Lakes), the Last Judgement, the last post, the last rites, the Last Supper, the Latin Church, the Latin Quarter, the latter, the Left, the Liberal Democrats, The Listener, the Little Bear, the little people, the little folk, the living,