单词Iron Curtain
na.: 铁幕
铁幕（指昔日西欧与中东欧共产党执政国家之间想象的屏障）:
the name that people used for the border that used to exist between Western Europe and the communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe
铁幕
n.obstacleimpedimenthurdlelinecurtain
It was a rational strategy for those who could not influence the regime, but it had a flaw: they were still behind the Iron Curtain.
这对那些无法影响政局的人是个理性的策略，但是无奈的是：他们仍处在铁幕之后。
And with the fall of the Iron Curtain, elections indeed swept the world. Yet democracy doesn"t seem to have delivered on its promise.
然而，当铁幕落下，竞选真正席卷全球后，民主却好像没有带来它曾经期许的自由与幸福。
Not a lot was made of it at the time, but the once impregnable Iron Curtain had been breached.
口子开得并不大，但曾几何时固若金汤的铁幕被撕裂了。
But no writer from the region, in fact or fiction, has produced a matching account of the collapse of the Iron Curtain and its aftermath.
但那一区域却没有作家对铁幕的倒塌及其后续进行事实或虚构的相应叙述。
This iron curtain divided Europe into a communist east and a democratic west.
这个铁幕分为共产主义东部和西方民主的欧洲。
The statesman said the Iron Curtain countries had vast resources in manpower and materiel.
政治家说这些铁幕国家拥有丰富的人力及物产资源。
With the iron curtain still firmly in place, Moscow did not have anything resembling a computer industry and software was not for sale.
莫斯科具有一定的局限性，在那儿没有与计算机类似的行业，软件也不是用来出售的。
Perhaps nowhere in Germany are the effects of the Iron Curtain understood better than the tiny village of Moedlareuth.
在德国可能没有哪个地方能比莫德拉罗斯这个小村更能理解铁幕围墙的作用。
During the cold war similar devices were said to be in development on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
冷战期间，据说铁幕双方都在研究同样的装置。
Two decades later, however, enthusiasm for democracy and capitalism east of the former Iron Curtain appears to have waned considerably.
然而，20年后东欧对于民主和资本主义的热情却大幅度骤减。