He had become obsessed with Linear B as a schoolboy after hearing Evans speak.

他在孩提时听过伊文斯的演讲，由此对线形文字 B 产生了浓厚的兴趣。

In a domino effect, Ventris unraveled Linear B, with each word revealing more clearly that the language of Linear B was not Minoan, but Greek.

如多米诺骨牌一般，文特里斯环环相扣地破译了线形文字 B，每个词都愈发清晰地表明线形文字 B并不是米诺斯语，而是希腊语。

By analyzing these frequencies, she discovered that Linear B relied on word endings to give its sentences grammar.

通过分析这些字符的出现频率，她发现线形文字 B 是通过单词词尾的变化来改变句子的语法。

Evans had insisted that the Minoans conquered the mainland Greeks, and that was why examples of Linear B were found on the mainland.

伊文斯曾坚持认为，米诺斯人征服了希腊大陆，因此才能在大陆上发现线形文字 B 的范本。

From this she began to build a chart of the relations between the signs, coming closer than anyone before to deciphering Linear B.

由此，她开始制作一份符号关系表，比之前的任何人都更接近对线形文字 B 的破译。

Evans worked on Linear B for three decades before a scholar from Brooklyn, New York, named Alice Kober set out to solve the mystery.

在伊文斯对线形文字 B 研究到第三十个年头时，一位来自纽约布鲁克林的学者，爱丽丝 · 科博决心揭开这个未解之谜。

He knew that over centuries, place names tend to remain constant, and decided to compare Linear B to an ancient syllabary from the island of Cyprus.

他知道，即使历经数个世纪，地名也大多保持不变，于是他决定将线形文字 B和塞浦路斯岛上的古代音节文字进行对比。

He thought the script, dubbed Linear B, represented the Minoan language, and scholars all over the world came up with their own theories.

他猜想这种被称作 “线形文字 B” 的文本代表了米诺斯文明的语言，而全世界的学者则众说纷纭。

The Cypriot script was used hundreds of years after Linear B, but some of the symbols were similar — he wondered if the sounds would be similar, too.

塞浦路斯文字比线形文字 B 晚诞生了几百年，但其中一些字符比较相似——他猜想它们的发音是否也会相似。

After the war, Ventris built on Kober's grid using a newly published cache of Linear B inscriptions excavated from a different archeological site called Pylos, on mainland Greece.

战后，文特里斯进一步完善了科博的字符关系表，他参照了新公布的一批线形文字 B 铭文，这批泥板是在希腊大陆上的另一处遗迹皮洛斯出土的。

But the discovery that Linear B represented Greek, and not Minoan, showed that the opposite had happened: mainland Greeks invaded Crete and adopted the Minoan script for their own language.

但线形文字 B 属于希腊语，而非米诺斯语这一发现揭示了事实恰恰相反：大陆上的希腊人入侵了克里特岛，并借用了米诺斯文字作为自己的语言。

When Ventris plugged some of the sounds of the Cypriot syllabary into the Linear B inscriptions, he came up with the word Knossos, the name of the city where Evans had discovered his tablets.

当文特里斯将塞浦路斯音节文字的某些发音代入到线形文字 B 中时，他得到了 “克诺索斯” 这个词，也就是伊文斯发现泥板的城市的名字。

To help in her quest, she taught herself many languages–– knowledge she knew she would need to decipher Linear B. For the next two decades, she analyzed the symbols.

为了帮助她的探索，她自学了许多语言——她知道她需要破译线性 B 的知识。在接下来的二十年里，她分析了这些符号。

While Kober was analyzing the Knossos tablets, an architect named Michael Ventris was also working to crack Linear B. He had become obsessed with Linear B as a schoolboy after hearing Evans speak.

当 Kober 正在分析 Knossos 平板电脑时，一位名叫 Michael Ventris 的建筑师也在努力破解线形文字 B。 他还是个小学生时， 在听了 Evans 的演讲后就迷上了线形文字 B。

From this she began to build a chart of the relations between the signs, coming closer than anyone before to deciphering Linear B. But she died, probably of cancer, in 1950 at the age of 43.

由此她开始构建符号之间关系的图表，比以前任何人都更接近破译线性 B。 但她于 1950 年去世， 可能死于癌症， 享年 43 岁。

He even worked on deciphering the script while serving in World War II. After the war, Ventris built on Kober's grid using a newly published cache of Linear B inscriptions excavated from a different archeological site called Pylos, on mainland Greece.

在第二次世界大战服役期间， 他甚至致力于破译剧本。战后，Ventris 在 Kober 的网格上建立了新出版的线形 B 铭文缓存， 这些铭文是从希腊大陆另一个名为 Pylos 的不同考古遗址挖掘出来的。