廣泛地緣政治
Eastern Europe consists of the eastern region of Europe.
東歐包含了歐洲東邊地區。
consist of 由……組成
Russia, located in Eastern Europe, is Europe’s largest and most populated country, accounting for 40% of the continent`s total landmass and over 15% of its total population.
位在東歐的俄國是歐洲最大且人口最多的國家，佔該洲總陸地的40％以及超過15％的總人口數。
account for 佔……比例、解釋continent (n.)洲population (n.)人口
There is no exact definition of the area Eastern Europe covers because the term has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic significances.
東歐所包含的地區沒有準確的定義，因為該名稱有廣泛的地緣政治、地理、種族、文化和社經意涵。
ethnic (adj.)種族的,民族的
The Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit University says that there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region."
惠靈耶穌會大學的教育科技中心說，「東歐的定義幾乎跟該地區的學者數一樣多。」
scholar (n.)學者
As defined in a cultural sense, Eastern Europe is the region of Europe whose primary characteristics contain East Slavic, Greek, Byzantine, Eastern Orthodox, and some Ottoman cultural influences.
就文化層面的定義來說，東歐的主要特徵包含有來自東斯拉夫、希臘、拜占庭、東正教和一些鄂圖曼文化的影響。
cultural (adj.)文化的primary (adj.)主要的
Another definition created during the Cold War is more or less in line with the term Eastern Bloc, which refers to the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Southeast Asia under the influence of the Soviet Union.
另外一個在冷戰時期產生的定義跟「東方集團」一詞吻合，指受到蘇聯影響的中歐、東歐、東亞和東南亞社會主義國家。
in line with 符合state (n.)國家,政府
A similar definition labels the ex-communist European states outside the Soviet Union as Eastern Europe.
另一個類似的定義則將蘇聯以外的前共產主義歐洲國家標示為東歐。
communist (adj.)共產主義的
Such definitions are widely considered outdated, but they still serve a statistical purpose.
這種定義普遍被認為是過時的，但它們仍有統計上的作用。
outdated (adj.)過時的statistical (adj.)統計的