You would send the chariot racing toward the line of infantrymen

你派战车冲击敌方步兵阵型
and the usual outcome was the infantrymen

通常的结果是
would panic in the face of being charged by these things,

步兵会因战车的袭击而慌乱
and you would break their line

你就破坏了他们的阵型
and give the other side an opportunity to wreak havoc with their army.

并给己方军队创造了攻破敌军的机会
Well, what do the Homeric heroes do with their chariots?

那荷马史诗的主角们是怎么用战车的呢
They use them as taxicabs.

他们把战车当出租车
Achilles

阿喀琉斯[希腊神话中希腊第一勇士]
or Patroclus,

或普特洛克勒斯[死于特洛伊的希腊战士]
or whoever is on his chariot, is driving.

或任何在战车上的人
He is riding from the ships

他们开着战车从任何地方
or wherever he is from the camp to the battlefield.

船或营地一路到达战场