Ventris died in a car crash four years later, at the age of 34.

文特里斯在四年后的一场车祸中丧生，终年 34 岁。

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。

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。

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。

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。