Proto-Indo-European is a reconstructed language, meaning, it is what linguists concluded a parent language of Sanskrit, Latin and Greek would have to be like.

原始印欧语是一门经过重构得出的语言，也就是说，这就是语言学家总结出梵语、拉丁语和希腊语的母系语言的样子。

Because most existing species live in Australia, early researchers concluded that Varanus originated in Australia and subsequently island hopped westward along the Indo-Australian archipelago.

由于现存的大多数物种生活在澳大利亚，早期的研究人员得出结论，巨蜥属起源于澳大利亚，随后沿着印澳群岛向西跳跃。

Perhaps the most striking sign of mobility is the fact that by the third millennium B.C., most pastoralists in this huge region spoke related languages ancestral to the modern Indo-European languages.

可能在人口流动性方面最具说服力的标志是，公元前3000年，在这片广袤的土地上大部分牧民讲的相关语言，现代印欧语系就从中发展而来。

These venomous fish are generally found in the waters of the tropical Indo Pacific.

这种有毒鱼类常见于热带印度太平洋水域。

We speak a decimal language because an ancestral tongue, proto-Indo-European, was decimally based.

我们说的是十进制的语言，这是因为我们的始祖语言——原始印欧语——是基于十进制的。

The scholars referred to that source language as Proto-Indo-European. Proto-Indo-European is a reconstructed language.

学者们把这种源语言称为原始印欧语。原始印欧语是一种重建的语言。

Long enough that there was an Indo-European word for cow gwou.

这段时间很长，以至于在印欧语系里就有个对应于cow的单词gwou。

In fact our word lean evolved from the same Indo-European root.

事实上，我们语言中的lean也是来源同样的印欧语系。

The Indo-European root that likely gave us our word number was nem.

number这个词的印欧语词根可能是nem。

The Indo-Burmese project is expected to take five years to complete.

预计这个印度-缅甸项目要耗费5年的时间才能完成。

Some sources point to an Indo-European root dek meaning “to take” or “to accept.”

而另一些出处则直指一个印欧语系的词根dek，意思是“取到”或者“接受”。

No one knows what made the Germanic language branch off from the Indo-European family.

无人知晓什么原因导致了日耳曼语从印欧语系中脱离。

The rest of northern, central and eastern India consists of the fertile Indo-Gangetic plain.

北部的其他地方、中部和东部组成了肥沃的恒河平原。

Her friends were a mixture of Afro - and Indo-Guyanese, and - like her - were all politicians.

她的朋友中有非洲裔人和印第安圭亚那人，他们都是一些政客。

The root of pneumonia goes back beyond ancient Greek to an Indo-European word pleu meaning “to flow.”

如果要对pneumonia追根溯源的话，它的词根就得超越古希腊，返回到一个印欧语系单词pleu——其意指“流动”（to flow）。

The American Heritage Dictionary points to a different Indo-European root for the sucking kind of leech.

美国传统词典上指出吸血虫leech来自一个不同的印欧词根。

These two genetic Cousins of English, in the Indo-European language family, are child's play compared with some.

这两门语言都属于印欧语系，是英语的近亲，和其他一些语言比起来，简直是小儿科。

The official and common language is Divehi, an Indo-European language related to Sinhalese, the language of Sri Lanka.

马尔代夫的官方语言和最普遍的是迪维西语，一种接近于僧伽罗语(斯里兰卡的语言)的印欧语言。

The ulna is named from Latin and Latin in turn took the name ultimately from an Indo-European root el meaning “forearm.

其中尺骨-ulna这一名词来自拉丁文，而拉丁语中的这个词根源于印欧语词根“el”——“前臂”。

A long long time ago the roots of this word were Indo-European and meant "to put," or "to put up" or even "to hang up."

很久以前，那是印欧语系的词根，意味着“去放”或者“举起来”甚至“挂起来”。

As with most French words mess actually goes back to Latin and the OED even takes it back further to Indo-European.

真如大多数法语单词一样，mess实际上可以追溯到拉丁语，《牛津英语词典》甚至更进一步追溯至印欧语。

The root of his name is thought to come from an Indo-European root ei meaning “to go,” again, as one does through a doorway.

他的名字的来源被认为是来自印欧语系的一个词根，意为“向前走”，再一次的，需要经过一道门。

Concern for the leatherback grew after populations in the Indo-Pacific crashed by more than 90 percent in the 1980s and 1990s.

上世纪八十年代和九十年代期间，印太地区的棱皮龟数量暴跌90%以上，此后，对棱皮龟生存的关注便因此而明显增加。

The second half of the word butter is supposed to represent turos the Greek word for “cheese” and also have Indo-European roots.

butter一词的另一半据悉代表着希腊语单词turos，即英语中的“奶酪”，同样有印欧语系的渊源。

The Indo-Malayan lowlands are home to Asian elephants, clouded leopards, wild water buffalo, gaur, hornbills, cobras and geckos.

印度-马来亚低地(Indo - Malayan)居住着亚洲象、云豹、野水牛、白肢野牛、犀鸟、眼镜蛇及壁虎。

The deeper root of this Greek meaning is (according to the American Heritage Dictionary) Indo-European where da meant “to divide.”

根据《美国传统词典》的说法，这个古希腊单词可以进一步追溯到印欧语——da的意思是“分开、分配”。

Three thousand years ago, in what today we call Rome, Indo-Europeans connected to hunt, survive and generally look out for one another.

三千年前，在如今被我们称之为罗马的地方，印欧人聚集在一起，一起打猎，一起生活，一起照顾彼此。

The Indo-Gangetic plain, home to a seventh of mankind and purveyor of a fifth of the world's wheat, is likely to be especially hard hit.

印度恒河平原地区居住着世界七分之一的人口，种植着世界五分之一的小麦，他们很可能会遭受沉重的打击。