There were already islands called "the East Indies" in the Pacific Ocean.

在太平洋，那里已经有一个叫“东印度”的岛屿。

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But Columbus called these islands the Indies because he thought he had finally reached Asia (and the East Indies).

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。

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The only force able to interfere with a Japanese drive into the East Indies? The U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.

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。

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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

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The Kennemerland, a Dutch East India Company merchant ship that was outward bound from Holland to the East Indies.

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Accidents of colonial history Indonesia was the Dutch-run bit of the East Indies, Malaysia the British bit help explain the rows over territory and culture.

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In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to the "company of merchants of London trading to the East Indies" -- the East India Company.

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