The European Union is a group of countries that among other things work together to create a single market.

欧盟是一个国家集团，除他事项，共同努力创造一个单一的市场。

The group has a 110,000-strong technology development team-larger than the commercial-banking divisions of all but the biggest banks-including 3,000 scientists.

该集团拥有11万人的技开发团队，中包括3000名科学家，这个团队比除最大的银行的所有商业银行部门都要大。

With the exception of Turkey, all of the were either Soviet states or part of the Soviet bloc, and with Georgia and Ukraine aspiring to move closer to NATO, Russia is increasingly surrounded by treaty allies.

除了土耳, 所有国家都是苏联国家或曾属于苏联集团, 而随着格鲁吉亚及乌克兰希望向北约靠拢, 俄罗斯正越来越被条约国盟友包围。