每日一词学英语(37): phalanx

这几天有人呼吁英国首相布朗辞职，BBC应该对此有所报道才是，但今天(June IV, 2009)BBC绝口未提布朗，为什么？因为今天是英国和欧洲选举日，按规定上午9点至晚上10点之间不得报道(英国)政治。It's just that correspondents aren't allowed to report politics on election day. They've been told not to report anything after 9am and before 10pm. Why you are allowed to report before 9am is without explanation.

Charles Clarke - at the head of a phalanx of so-called Blairites - is named by everyone as the moving spirit against Brown among MPs. 这个人打头走在布莱尔派方阵的前面。Phalanx是a large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose，密集队伍，方阵。物以类聚，人以群分，形容一群人时可以用这个词。

说一下另一个意思，Phalanx bones指手指骨或脚趾骨。