英 [ˈsəʊviət] 美 [ˈsoʊviet]
n. 苏维埃；苏联人民（Soviets/the Soviets）；（1917年前俄国工人、农民组成）地方革命委员会
adj. 苏联的，苏联人民的（Soviet）
Soviet /ˈsəʊvɪət, ˈsɒv-/ TEM4
形容词 Soviet is used to describe something that belonged or related to the former Soviet Union. 前苏联的
...the former Soviet empire.
...前苏联帝国。
复数型名词 The Soviets were the people of the former Soviet Union. 前苏联人
In 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik 1 into outer space.
前苏联于1957年发射了“伴侣1号”人造外星到了外太空。
可数名词 A soviet was an elected local, regional, or national council in the former Soviet Union. (前苏联地方、区域或国家)代表议会
an elected governmental council in a Communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
of or relating to or characteristic of the former Soviet Union or its people
苏维埃（Soviet）指的就是人们选出代表来为他们做发言和选举等事情的一种制度，它基本上等同于苏联本身。
社会学家指出，普京(Putin)只是在效仿过去苏联(Soviet)领导人的做法，让妻子远离公众视线。
1980年莫斯科奥运会(Olympic Games)跟着苏军(Soviet)侵犯阿富汗让那个呼喊清静的使臣多了几分的无奈，公然抵御或圮绝出席的占五分之二，参赛(Entry)的仅80个。
套用苏大(Soviet)学士(Bachelor)的文句：
sovietise 苏联化（等于sovietize）
Soviet expansionism was considered a real threat.
苏联的扩张主义曾被认为是种真正的威胁。
Soviet fighter planes were extremely manoeuvrable.
苏联战机操纵起来极其灵活。
Soviet citizens were prohibited from travelling abroad.
苏联时代的公民被禁止出国旅游。
Hitler could not strengthen his forces in North Africa and Italy, because Germany also was fighting hard in the Soviet Union.
VOA : special.2011.06.09
I discussed Soviet movies with expatriates. I sat with uranists in the Deux Magots. I published tortuous essays in obscure journals.
我和流浪者大谈苏联电影，我和,铀矿学家一起坐在“第二人像“里，我在小报上发表。
1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
On a line for sometime... and then it was close to the Soviet Union That's really suspicious to Washington.
有一段时间是同一战线的。,当时和苏联关系紧密,使得美国心生疑虑。
国际座谈会课程节选 : 普林斯顿公开课
But in the last twenty years, H.I.V.and the collapse of the Soviet Union helped raise death rates in thirty-seven countries worldwide.
VOA : special.2010.05.05
At the time President Kennedy first spoke about landing humans on the moon, the Soviet space program seemed far ahead.
VOA : special.2009.07.08
Lanworth has begun expanding its analysis to croplands in South America, India and the former Soviet Union.
Then only the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France and China had acquired nuclear weapons.
In his twelve years in power, Putin has made Russia into a repressive Soviet state.