There were the outsize flags, the broad acres of red carpet, the honour guards in Napoleonic-era uniforms, the bulletproof limos, and the windy communiques long on aspiration and short of action.

会场周围巨大的旗帜迎风飘扬，气派的红地毯耀人眼球，衣着拿破仑时代制服的仪仗队赏心悦目，高档的防弹轿车随处可见，激情满溢而具体方案寥寥的冗长公报正想传递。

A few of the older and larger Chapters can muster as many as two dozen Honour Guards, but it is a rare and terrible day when they all fight as one.

一些历史悠久且有一定规模的连队可以召集20多个荣誉卫士。但是这样多的荣誉卫士集合一起的战斗是非常罕见的。