the sterling area

group of countries that formerly kept their reserves in British sterling currency and between which money could easily be transferred 英镑区（旧时用英镑作准备金的各国）.

the roadway, the roll call, the Roman alphabet, the sack, the safe period, the same, the same as, the sandman, the second coming, the Security Council, the seventh day, the small hours, the solar system, the solar year, the Son of God, the Son of Man, the Soviet Union, the Spanish Main, the splits, the Stars and Stripes, the State Department, the Stone Age, the sulks, the supernatural, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Soviet, the synoptic gospels, the third dimension, the Third World, the three Rs, the triple jump, the U.S., the unconscious, the undermentioned, the underprivileged, the undersigned, the unemployed, the unexpected, the Union Jack (also the Union flag), the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom (abbr 缩写 (the) UK),