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

在1699年我们从英格兰的布里斯托尔出发，前往东度。

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度地区。

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 乃荷兰於东度洋的首都。

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

所以，我们有家里的鸡，西度群岛的糖和东度群岛的调味品。

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

英国转为前往度次大陆殖民，随后又转向斯，而荷兰则去往了东度群岛。

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

也没有任何特别的理由认为荷属东度群岛存在早的化石。

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

只有几艘帆船，运货物到度，向好望角驶去。

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

他以为他在去度的途中登上了东度群岛，因此他称在那儿遇到的为第安。

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

事实上，正是来自东度群岛的茶叶——加了大量来自西度群岛的糖——推动了工业革命。

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度海中厉害怕的黑鲨鱼，真正所谓鲨鱼的一种。

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

香料只在东度群岛生长，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，日本占领了东度群岛、关岛和威克岛。

" 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，此后一直待在东度群岛。我想，他驻守在那里已经好多年了。"

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.

所以他把当地成为度。之后才发现，那不是所知的度，而是西度群岛，另一个度是东度群岛。

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

“我要去东度群岛——度、马来亚、菲律宾… … 你为什么不跟我一起去”？

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

非洲或东度群岛最野蛮的民族是牧羊；甚至霍屯督也是如此。

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，欧洲从与东度群岛的贸易中获得的优势远不如从与美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度群岛其他一些英国定居点的现状。

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， 葡萄牙是唯一与东度群岛进行任何定贸易的欧洲国家。

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

为了获得荷属东度群岛的石油，日本不得不与世界上两个最重要的海军强国交战。