They reach the East Indies in the 1620s and the 1630s.

他们于十七世纪二三十年代至东印度地区。

We'd set sail from Bristol in England in 1699 and were heading for the East Indies.

在1699年我们从英格兰布里斯托尔出发，前往东印度。

For over 300 years, the city was called Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies.

逾 300 年来，雅加达冠上了「巴达维亚」一名 乃荷兰於东印度洋首都。

The British turned to the Indian subcontinent and then to Persia, the Dutch to the East Indies.

英国前往印度次大陆殖民，随后又向波斯，而荷兰则去往了东印度群岛。

A few sailing ships, laden for the East Indies, were heading toward the Cape of Good Hope.

只有几艘帆，运货物到印度，向好望角驶去。

So, we've had eggs from home, sugar from the West Indies and spice from the East Indies.

所以，我们有家里鸡蛋，西印度群岛糖和东印度群岛品。

Nor was there any special reason to suppose that the East Indies would hold early human remains.

也没有任何特别理由认荷属东印度群岛存在早期类化石。

He thought that he had landed in the East Indies on his way to India, so he called the people he met there.

他以他在去印度途中登上了东印度群岛，因此他称在那儿遇到印第安。

Spices only grew in the East Indies and of course transportation costs were astronomical. ?

香料只在东印度群岛生长，当然运输成本是天文数字。 ？

Along its way to Australia, Japan took the East Indies, Guam, and Wake Island.

在前往澳大利亚途中，日本占领了东印度群岛、关岛和威克岛。

The most barbarous nations either of Africa or of the East Indies, were shepherds; even the Hottentots were so.

非洲或东印度群岛最野蛮民族是牧羊；甚至霍屯督也是如此。

'I'm going out to the East Indies—India, Malaya, the Philippines... Why don't you come with me'?

“我要去东印度群岛——印度、马来亚、菲律宾… … 你什么不跟我一起去”？

Europe, however, has hitherto derived much less advantage from its commerce with the East Indies, than from that with America.

然而，迄今止，欧洲从与东印度群岛贸易中获得优势远不如从与美洲贸易中获得优势。

This, perhaps, is nearly the present state of Bengal, and of some other of the English settlements in the East Indies.

这也许几乎就是孟加拉和东印度群岛其他一些英国定居点现状。

During the sixteenth century, the Portuguese were the only European nation who carried on any regular trade to the East Indies.

在 16 世纪， 葡萄牙是唯一与东印度群岛进行任何定期贸易欧洲国家。

From the black markings on the tips of its fins, I recognized the dreadful Squalus melanopterus from the seas of the East Indies, a variety in the species of sharks proper.

看到那鳍梢现出黑颜色，我认出这条鲨鱼就是印度海中厉害怕黑鲨鱼，真正所谓鲨鱼一种。

" He is a rear admiral of the white. He was in the Trafalgar action, and has been in the East Indies since; he was stationed there, I believe, several years" .

" 他是白色中队海军少将，参加过特拉法加战役，此后一直待在东印度群岛。我想，他驻守在那里已经好多年了。"

To obtain the oil in the Dutch East Indies, Japan had to engage in war with the  world's two most significant naval powers.

了获得荷属东印度群岛石油，日本不得不与世界上两个最重要海军强国交战。

Africa, however, as well as several of the countries comprehended under the general name of the East Indies, is inhabited by barbarous nations.

然而，非洲以及统称东印度群岛几个国家居住着野蛮民族。

So he called it India. Afterwards, when it was found that this was not the country known before as India, it was called the West Indies, and the other India the East Indies.

所以他把当地成印度。之后才发现，那不是所知印度，而是西印度群岛，另一个印度是东印度群岛。