Roman reinforcements were returning from the Pontic wars, and the rebels' ranks and spirits were broken.

罗马的增援力量从本都战争返回，反叛军队和士气溃败。

Roman reinforcements were returning from the Pontic wars, and the rebels’ ranks and spirits were broken.

罗马援军从本都战争中返回，叛军的队伍和精神都被打破了。

We can use the same process to go back one step further and trace the origins of Proto-Germanic to a language called Proto-Indo-European spoken about 6000 years ago on the pontic steppe in modern day Ukraine and Russia.

我们甚至能够用这种进程方法再往过去走一步，追溯古日耳曼语的起源到一门被称作古原始印欧语的语言，大约六千年前在东欧大草原上使用，也就是今天的乌克兰和俄罗斯。