the elect

n [pl v] (fml 文) people specially selected as the best 特别精选出来的人.

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 Eastern Bloc, 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, the golden mean,