the west indies

Indians were sent out to become contract laborers on Malaya's rubber plantations, or to work as indentured serv-ants in the West Indies.

印度人作为合同劳工被派遣到马来半岛的橡胶种植园，或者到西印度群岛做契约佣工。

Later buccaneers from the West Indies began to sail the waters of the Caribbean Sea and stole from any ship that they found.

后来，西印度群岛的海盗前往加勒比海域，从所有他们发现的船只中进行劫掠活动。

His mother was the daughter of French Huguenots who had settled in the West Indies. Her name was Rachel Lavien.

他的母亲是已经迁移到西印度群岛的法国雨格诺教徒的女儿，她的名字叫雷切尔。莱温。

He spends the winter in the West Indies and summer in England, commuting back and forth like the migrating swallows.

他在西印度群岛过冬天，在英国过夏天象定期移栖的燕子一般固定来回。

'You want somebody to send to the West Indies, you were saying, ' observed Mr Dombey, hurriedly.

“您刚才说，您要派一个人到西印度群岛去，”董贝先生急忙说道。

Pumpkin had been raised by the Indians centuries before Columbus reached the west Indies. They had baked it with honey.

早在哥伦布到达西印度群岛之前的几个世纪里，印第安人就已在种植南瓜了，他们把蜂蜜加在上面烘烤着吃。

an island state in the West Indies; an independent state within the British Commonwealth.

位于西印度向风群岛的一岛国；英联邦中的一个独立国家。

A patient who died in the UK from Strongyloides infection, which he had contracted in the West Indies, is described.

病人谁死在英国从粪感染，这是他合同在西印度群岛，描述。

Alexander Hamilton, truly a remarkable young man, was penniless and family-less when he immigrated to New York in 1772 from the West Indies.

1772年，当真正的奇才亚历山大•汉密尔顿从西印度群岛移居纽约的时候，他还是一个身无分文、无家可归的年轻人。

Photo of the Day: Best of March 2008 A rainbow arcs over trees blooming on a hillside in the West Indies island of Dominica.

2008年3月最好的每日一图。一个弧形的彩虹越过开花的树木在一个山坡上位于西印度群岛的多米尼加。

He came to the West Indies when he was very young and plundered the Spanish settlements of Puerto del Principe, Puerto Bello, and Maracaibo.

当他很年轻时他来到西印度群岛，并洗劫了普林西比岛港、贝勒港和马拉开波（地名，委内瑞拉第二大城市）等西班牙的殖民地。

Around 90% of the alcohol consumed by the American colonies was British rum, imported from the West Indies .

在美国殖民地，人们喝的大约90%的酒都是从西印度群岛进口的英国朗姆酒。

Admiring friends offered to carry him at their own cost to the Yellowstone River, --to the West Indies, --to South America.

他喜爱的朋友要自己花钱带他去黄石河----去西印第安人居住地----去南美。

The British and other Europeans who went out to the West Indies to get rich usually died first.

走出家门去西印度群岛想发财致富的英国人和别的欧洲人通常会在那先死掉。

An island of the U. S. Virgin Islands in the West Indies east of Puerto Rico.

西印度群岛中美属维尔京群岛中的一岛，位于波多黎各东部。

A country of the West Indies comprising the western part of the island of Hispaniola and two offshore islands.

位于西印度群岛的一个国家，由伊斯帕尼尔奥拉群岛的西部和两个近海岛屿组成。

popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar.

起源于西印度群岛的一种流行乐曲；用吉它演奏的弱音处即兴重复的低音。

I went down to Ramsgate for a week with a friend last September, just after my return from the West Indies.

去年9月——就在我刚从西印度群岛回来——我和一位朋友到拉姆斯盖特去了一个星期。

Why were recruitment centres set up in the West Indies in the 1950s?

50年代英国为什么会在西印度设立一些招聘中心？

On the outward voyage the ship will call in at the west indies.

在海外航行中，这艘轮船将在西印度群岛停靠。