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年我们从英格兰的托尔出发，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 乃荷兰於东印度洋的首都。

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

英人转为前往印度次大陆殖民，随后又转向波，而荷兰人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.

只有几艘帆船，运货物到印度，向好角驶去。

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

所以，我们有家的鸡蛋，西印度群岛的糖和东印度群岛的调味品。

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

也没有任何特别的理由认为荷属东印度群岛存在早期人类的化石。

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的茶叶——加了大量来自西印度群岛的糖——推动了工业革。

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

他以为他在去印度的途中登上了东印度群岛，因此他称在那儿遇到的人为印第安人。

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.

在前往澳大利亚的途中，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的民族是牧羊人；甚至霍屯督人也是如此。

'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… … 你为什么不跟我一起去”？

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

然而，迄今为止，欧洲从与东印度群岛的贸易中获得的优势远不如从与洲的贸易中获得的优势。

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定居点的现状。

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， 葡萄牙人是唯一与东印度群岛进行任何定期贸易的欧洲家。

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.

看到那鳍梢现出的黑颜色，我认出这条鲨鱼就是印度海中厉害怕人的黑鲨鱼，真正所谓鲨鱼的一种。

" 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" .

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

The trade to the East Indies, if it were altogether free, would probably absorb the greater part of this redundant capital.

与东印度群岛的贸易，如果完全自由的话，很可能会吸收大部分多余的资本。

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

为了获得荷属东印度群岛的石油，日本不得不与世界上两个最重要的海军强交战。