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

在1699年们从英格兰布里斯托尔出发，前往东印度。

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。

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.

所他把当地成为印度。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。

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，认出这条鲨鱼就是印度海中厉害怕人黑鲨鱼，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。想，他驻守在那里已经好多年了。"

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

他为他在去印度途中登上了东印度群岛，因此他称在那儿遇到人为印第安人。

Indeed, it was tea from the East Indies – heavily sweetened with sugar from the West Indies – that fuelled the Industrial Revolution.

事实上，正是来自东印度群岛茶叶——加了大量来自西印度群岛糖——推动了工业革命。

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。

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

所，们有家里鸡蛋，西印度群岛糖和东印度群岛调味品。

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

英国人转为前往印度次大陆殖民，随后又转向波斯，而荷兰人则去往了东印度群岛。

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为荷属东印度群岛存在早期人类化石。

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

只有几艘帆船，运货物到印度，向好望角驶去。

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。 ？

But English sailors were not just looking to the East Indies.

但英国水手们并不仅仅关注东印度群岛。

Does he actually want to go all the way down to the Dutch East Indies?

他真想一路到底去到荷属东印度吗？

The great quantity of silver sent annually to the East Indies reduces, he supposes, the quantities of those metals which remain in Europe to the proportion of one to fourteen or fifteen, the proportion of their values.

他推测，每年运往东印度群岛大量白银会使留在欧洲金属数量减少到其价值比例一比十四或十五。

Despite popular belief, Columbus did not set  foot on American soil during this first voyage and had not yet realized that he had failed  to discover a new route to the East Indies.

尽管人们普遍认为， 哥伦布在第一次航行中并未踏上美洲领土，也没有意识到他未能发现通往东印度群岛新航线。

And he was also forced to sign a document which said that he would, he promised that he would never again be involved in any kind of trade with the East Indies.

他还被迫签署了一份文件，承诺自己将不再参与任何与东印度贸易活动。

Except in Portugal, however, and within these few years in France, the trade to the East Indies has, in every European country, been subjected to an exclusive company.

然而，除了葡萄牙， 及在法国这几年内， 与东印度群岛贸易在每个欧洲国家都受到一家排他性公司控制。

I think I shall trade, " said he, leaning back in his chair, " to the East Indies, for silks, shawls, spices, dyes, drugs, and precious woods.

“想会去做贸易，”他靠在椅背上说，“去东印度，买卖丝绸、披肩、香料、染料、药材和名贵木材。”