威廉王子今日大婚 賓客面臨嚴格安保檢查
It's not the type of welcome most wedding guests expect before they get into church — background checks, ID verificationand a security sweep.
大多數參加婚禮的賓客都不希望在進教堂前受到如此接待——接受背景審查、身份認證，還有安全掃描。
But then again, Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding on Friday is no ordinary affair.
話又說回來，威廉王子和凱特• 米德爾頓在週五舉行的婚禮可不是尋常的事情。
Britain hasn't seen a royal wedding of this size since Prince Charles married Diana in 1981 — there were actually 200 more police on duty for that wedding, which had a longer procession route and a guest list of some 3,500 people, including foreign royals and heads of state.
自從1981年查爾斯王子和戴安娜的婚禮之後，英國就沒再舉行過如此盛大的皇室婚禮。婚禮現場的警衛人數會比戴妃婚禮多出200名，婚禮遊行路線也會更長。參加婚禮的賓客約有3500人，包括外國皇室成員和國家首腦。
Friday's wedding will offer much of the same pompand circumstance with its 1,900 invited guests, but it also presents a modern security nightmare for the 5,000 U.K. police officers on duty.
參加週五婚禮的1900名受邀賓客將目睹和當年同樣的盛況和情景，不過如今這場婚禮的安保對於5000名英國當值警員來說，卻是一件棘手的事。
A wide range of police will be on patrol for as the couple ties the knot Friday: officers on motorcycles, escort specialists, dog handlers, search officers, mounted police, protection officers and firearms units, although only a fraction of Britain's police officers are armed.
威廉和凱特在週五舉行婚禮之時，將出動各類警員四處巡視。有騎摩托車的警察、護衛專員、帶警犬的警員、搜尋員、騎警、安保官員，還有消防員。不過只有一小部分英國警員是荷槍實彈的。
Thousands of people are expected along the parade route Friday, a snakingpath of less than a mile from Westminster Abbey — an iconic cathedral near London's Big Ben and Parliament buildings — to Buckingham Palace, where the new royal couple will appear on the balcony for the anticipated kiss.
預計週五將有成千上萬的人等候在婚禮遊行路線兩旁。遊行隊伍從威斯敏斯特大教堂出發，途經一條不到一英里的蜿蜒小道，而後到達白金漢宮。威斯敏斯特大教堂在倫敦的大本鐘和國會大廈附近，是英國的標誌性大教堂。皇室新人將在白金漢宮的陽臺重現“世紀之吻”。
