东印度群岛

在荷属东印度群岛（也就是如今的印度尼西亚）郁郁葱葱的海岛，坦博拉火山（MountTambora）的爆发令数万人丧生。

Around the lush isles of the Dutch East Indies - modern-day Indonesia - the eruption of Mount Tambora killed tens of thousands of people .

蔓延的疾病最终来到荷属东印度群岛。

The pandemic spread and eventually reached the Dutch East Indies .

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 yielding fibers inferior to kapok .

明天的浪潮中我驶向东印度群岛

I sail for the East Indies on tomorrow 's tide .

东印度群岛乔木，黄白色花，总状花序；因观赏而大量栽培。

East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers ; cultivated as an ornamental .

他身上的热血，即使运到东印度群岛去，也不会象瓶装土啤酒那样容易变质。

Transported to the Indies , his live blood would not spoil like bottled ale .

东北南美洲和较小的安的列斯群岛的美国印第安族人。ph.1.荷属东印度群岛

A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles . Dutch East Indies

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 .

印度和非洲作为货币使用的各种各类的磁贝，东印度群岛最珍贵的贝壳—海的光荣。

every variety of cowry used as money in India and Africa ; a glory-of-the-seas , the most valuable shell in the East Indies ;

在广场的大棚之下，说唱乐手们也有一席之地，他们常常呼吁社会关注东印度群岛边缘人群的困境。

Rappers set up on the plaza across from the kraton , often calling attention to the plight of marginalized peoples of the East Indies .

我在家里呆了只有10天，就有一个朋友请我加入他的到东印度群岛的旅行。

I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies .

东印度群岛的一种菜豆属植物，尤指在印度群岛作为饲料和改良土壤的作物，叶被毛，种子小而黄褐色，豆荚圆筒形。

East Indian legume having hairy foliage and small yellow flowers followed by cylindrical pods ; used especially in India for food and forage and soil-conditioning ; sometimes placed in genus phaseolus .

日本政府认定，有必要把荷属东印度群岛（如今的印尼）的石油控制在手里。它推测，如果对荷属东印度群岛发动袭击，将不可避免地把美国拖入战争。

Tokyo decided it needed to grab control of oil in the Dutch East Indies , now Indonesia - an assault that , it guessed , would inevitably draw the US into the war .

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 .

“例如，想一想这葡萄酒吧，”老所尔说道，“我不知道它有多少次被运到东印度群岛，然后又运回来，有一次还周游了全世界。

' Think of this wine for instance , 'said old Sol , 'which has been to the East Indies and back , I 'm not able to say how often , and has been once round the world .

我们为什么要在那些昨天动身到阴间去的人的名称面前，加上这么一个意义深长而缺乏诚意的词儿？而如果他不过是出发到现世的最遥远的东印度群岛去，却又不这样称呼他？

how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world , we prefix so significant and infidel a word , and yet do not thus entitle him , if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth ;