1917, from Russian sovet "governing council," literally "council," from Old Russian suvetu "assembly," from su "with" (from *su(n)- "with, together," from PIE *ksun- "with") + vetu "counsel." The whole is a loan-translation of Greek symboulion "council of advisers." As an adjective from 1918.
雙語例句
1. Food for the ordinary Soviet troops and NCOs was very poor.
蘇聯普通士兵的伙食很糟糕。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Hitler himself committed suicide as Soviet forces were closing in on Berlin.
當蘇聯軍隊逼近柏林的時候，希特勒自殺了。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Gorbachev failed to keep the component parts of the Soviet Union together.
戈爾巴喬夫沒能把蘇聯各成員國團結在一起。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Turkey and Greece were buffer states against the former Soviet Union.
土耳其和希臘是前蘇聯與反蘇國家之間的緩沖國。
來自柯林斯例句
5. In 1990, 200,000 Soviet Jews resettled on Israeli territory.