1A body of troops or police officers standing or moving in close formation.

由警方密集队列引导的600人游行队伍出发了。

1. 1.1 A group of people or things of a similar type forming a compact body.
   密集群；为共同目的集结的群体
   he headed past the phalanx of waiting reporters to the line of limos

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It seems pointless to lump these three very different authors together, particularly when they are juxtaposed against a phalanx of the great and the good of mainly ascendancy writing.
   • Most intriguing, though, is that phalanx of stolid men in colourless suits forever behind and beside Bush.
   • With Spain's phalanx of minimalist technicians happy to pass the ball among themselves early on, the first half-hour passed off almost entirely without incident.
   • The first feature to catch the eye is a giant nine-meter dish surrounded by phalanx of smaller satellite dishes for transmitting and receiving signals.
   • Of the strong modern phalanx of British composers, Judith Weir has long been a leader.
   • This is the place where I take up arms on behalf of the common man - or at least the common motorist - against the grim phalanx of officialdom which seeks to strangle our freedoms.
   • Here, librarians wander as wireless information warriors amid users at phalanxes of black computers.
   • It was by no means paranoid to imagine the loss of two or three of the Ulster Unionist Party's regular phalanx of 15 or so MPs from the inner counties.
   • So you were at home, there's a knock at the door, you opened the door and there's a sort of phalanx of legal people and their associates there and they demand immediate access to your computer?
   • Labour's manifesto was launched not by the Prime Minister alone but by a carefully choreographed phalanx of six ministers, with the remainder of the Cabinet arrayed behind them as a silent chorus.
   • How far did Handel's music exert a stranglehold, and was it ever seen as supporting the conservative Ancient Music phalanx, which was uniquely strong in Britain?
   • With the help of the late Pim Fortuyn's phalanx of oddball MPs, he is putting together the most right-wing government seen in Holland since the war.
   • This massed phalanx of critical women, their views reinforced by their happy agreement with each other, would plainly make any intimate compromise or concession on the part of the injured wife far harder to achieve.
   • The most recent addition to the West End of Glasgow's phalanx of themed restaurants, Arisaig, occupies the site of the former Living Room pub at the bottom of Byres Road.
2. 1.2 (in ancient Greece) a body of Macedonian infantry drawn up in close order with shields touching and long spears overlapping.
   （古希腊）方阵（排成密集队形的马其顿步兵，盾牌紧挨、长矛互搭）
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The Romans entered Macedonia, and the Macedonian phalanx fought its last battle on unfavourable ground at Pydna, on the morrow of the lunar eclipse in June 168.
   • And there was little beauty, if some nobility, in the famously effective Greek phalanx.
   • The Macedonian phalanx was Philip's creation, extended by Alexander.
   • Sixteen thousand of them he organized into a massive phalanx, even dressing them in Macedonian style.
   • It demonstrated the superiority of the more flexible Roman legion over the Hellenistic pike phalanx.

2Anatomy
A bone of the finger or toe.