Time and again, he led his cavalry armies in overrunning Xiongnu forces and capturing their leaders.

他率领他的骑兵部队一次又一次地击败匈奴军队，俘虏了他们的首领。

Like, think of the Huns, or the Xiongnu.

比如，想想匈奴，或者匈奴。

The Han Dynasty had been founded some 62 years previously, and for all those decades, had lived with a Xiongnu threat.

汉朝刚刚建立62年，在这几十年里，它便一直受到匈奴的威胁。

After the battle, it was said the Xiongnu fled far away, and there was no Xiongnu in the southern desert.

经此一役，匈奴遁逃，漠北无王府。

This represents a goat being devoured by a beast, just as the Xiongnu horsemen would sweep down from Mongolia in the Northwest to pillage China's northern provinces.

这－图像代表着一只山羊被一头野兽吃掉，就像匈奴骑兵会从西北的蒙古横扫中国北部省份。

One group of such nomads, the Yuezhi, were humiliated in battle in the 2nd century BCE by their bitter rivals the Xiongnu, who turned the Yuezhi king’s skull into a drinking cup, in fact.

一群这样的游牧民族，月氏，在公元前 2 世纪的战斗中被他们的劲敌匈奴羞辱， 事实上，匈奴把月氏王的头骨变成了酒杯。