Indies

(n. pl.) A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies.

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• I love to hear my uncle talk of the West Indies. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• What the Cape of Good Hope is between Europe and every part of the East Indies, Batavia is between the principal countries of the East Indies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The need for labour upon the plantations of the West Indies and the south was imperative. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She presently returned, and said, that Mr. Brownlow had sold off his goods, and gone to the West Indies, six weeks before. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He took me with him to the West Indies, set me free, and married me. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Deliver this letter to the agent when you reach Liverpool, and let me advise you, gentlemen, not to be too knowing in the West Indies. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The lands in America and the West Indies, indeed, are, in general, not tenanted nor leased out to farmers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It was estimated that in 1770 there were fifteen thousand slaves in Britain, mostly brought over by their owners from the West Indies and Virginia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Osborne went to the West Indies, where he became an eminent lawyer, and made money. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I went down to Ramsgate for a week with a friend last September, just after my return from the West Indies. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I think I shall trade, also, said he, putting his thumbs in his waist-coat pockets, to the West Indies, for sugar, tobacco, and rum. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He's learned his trade well, among the pirates in the West Indies. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Craven has got me into the West Indies again. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• 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. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• The most barbarous nations either of Africa or of the East Indies, were shepherds; even the Hottentots were so. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Fanny, William must not forget my shawl if he goes to the East Indies; and I shall give him a commission for anything else that is worth having. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Ph?nician shipping under Egyptian owners was making its way into the East Indies and perhaps even further into the Pacific. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It will be remembered that at a somewhat similar crisis in life young Robert Burns entertained seriously the idea of forsaking Scotland for the West Indies. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I think I shall trade, said he, leaning back in his chair, to the East Indies, for silks, shawls, spices, dyes, drugs, and precious woods. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Think I have--thousands of times--not here--West Indies-- exciting thing--hot work--very. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She might just as well be in the East Indies, said Esterhazy. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Hang it: the regiment's just back from the West Indies, I must have a little fling, and then when I'm married I'll reform; I will upon my honour, now. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The elder, Solomon, remained with his relatives in Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Of the Advantages which Europe has derived From the Discovery of America, and from that of a Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I wish he may go to the East Indies, that I may have my shawl. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• During his voyage in the East Indies he had laid in a supply of fireworks with which to celebrate the Fourth of July in a manner worthy an American captain. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Any gap at your fireside on such a night--such a gap least of all--I wouldn't make, for the wealth of the Indies! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• In his letters to Ferdinand and Isabella, he called the countries which he had discovered the Indies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In Asia particularly, in India or the East Indies, there may be hidden the most illuminating clues. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To the expectation of finding gold and silver mines, those first settlers, too, joined that of discovering a north-west passage to the East Indies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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