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。
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Like, think of the Huns, or the Xiongnu.
比如,想想匈奴,或者匈奴。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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.