Then they had both attempted, imprudently, to bow—and collapsed absurdly into a battalion of empty milk bottles just outside the door.

然后他们都试图， 不谨慎地，鞠躬 - 并荒谬地倒在门外的一营空牛奶瓶中。

And I was half expecting a battalion of C3PO-style robots to march into the fields with pincer hands to pluck the weeds.

而且我有一半期待 C3PO 式机器人营用钳子手进入田野来拔除杂草。

Despite being outnumbered and outgunned by the enemy, a battalion of around 400 soldiers, dubbed " The Eight Hundred Heroes, " held out against numerous waves of Japanese forces for four days and four nights.

尽管敌军寡不敌众， 枪炮落后，但一支由约 400 名士兵组成的营被称为“八百壮士” ，他们在四天四夜的时间里抵御了日军的无数波浪。