东印度群岛的一种木棉树生产次于木棉的纤维。
East Indian silk cotton tree yi elding fibers inferior to kapok.
在这些勤奋的人们手里，他们的钢铁就等同于东印度群岛的黄金和红宝石。
Their own steel and iron, in such laborious hands, become equal to the gold and rubies of the Indies.
而能够阻止日本人开进东印度群岛的唯一力量就是美国驻珍珠港的太平洋舰队。
The only force able to interfere with a Japanese drive into the East Indies? The U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.
他继续航行，到达东印度群岛(印度尼西亚)，横跨印度洋到达非洲最南端的好望角。
From there he proceeded to the East Indies (Indonesia) and across the Indian Ocean to the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.
但是哥伦布以为自己终于抵达了亚洲(及东印度群岛)，就将这片群岛称为印度群岛。
But Columbus called these islands the Indies because he thought he had finally reached Asia (and the East Indies).
如果我们太偏西南，将会到达其它的岛屿，而太偏西北则会使我们错过东印度群岛，最终把我们送回到东半球。
To be sent too far south-west would lead us to other islands.
“这就是说，”玛丽安带着轻蔑的口气，大声说道，“他告诉过你，东印度群岛气候炎热，蚊子令人讨厌啦。”
"That is to say," cried Marianne contemptuously, "he has told you, that in the East Indies the climate is hot, and the mosquitoes are troublesome."
富有的商人把货物发往遥远的东印度群岛去，在这些房子里安静地过着优裕的生活；如今这些人家虽已衰败，但仍然闪烁着往日繁华的余辉。
Rich merchants, sending their wares to the distant Indies, had lived in them calm and prosperous lives, and in their decent decay they kept still an aroma of their splendid past.
后来，西班牙人发现了哥伦布的错误，便把这里改名为西印度群岛，以区别于太平洋上的“香料群岛”(又名“东印度群岛”)，即如今的印度尼西亚。
Later when Columbus' mistake was discovered, Spain renamed them the West Indies, to distinguish them from the Spice Islands (the East Indies), which is in the Pacific Ocean and we now call Indonesia.
后来，西班牙人发现了哥伦布的错误，便把这里改名为西印度群岛，以区别于太平洋上的“香料群岛”(又名“东印度群岛”)，即如今的印度尼西亚。
Later when Columbus' mistake was discovered, Spain renamed them the West Indies, to distinguish them from the Spice Islands (the East Indies), which is in the Pacific Ocean and we now call Indonesia.
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