east indies造句
1. The Dutch successfully transplanted trees to the East Indies.
2. After making a three-month voyage to the East Indies in 1738, naval architect William Hutchinson could write from experience.
3. There were already islands called "the East Indies" in the Pacific Ocean.
4. When Kidd's activities in the East Indies, as it was then known, threatened the East India Company's business interests, they secured his downfall, said Wareham.
5. Of southeast Asia and East Indies ; the largest snake in the world.
6. It is a rubber-like product made by reacting rape-seed oil from the Dutch East indies with sulfur chloride.
7. "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. "
8. 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.
9. It is a rubber-like product made by reacting rape-seed oil from the Dutch East Indies with sulfur chloride.
10. 1942 - Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
11. The only force able to interfere with a Japanese drive into the East Indies? The U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.
12. An evergreen tree ( Myristica fragrans ) native to the East Indies and cultivated for its spicy seeds.
13. At the same time the silver coin of the Empire, its life-blood, began to be drained away to the British East Indies.
14. The raids, Chennault insisted, would forestall Japanese expansion into Malaya , Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines.
15. A large bird(Argusianus argus) of southern Asia and the East Indies, having long tail feathers marked with brilliantly colored, eyelike spots.
16. He also did not anticipate running into a landmass before he reached the East Indies.
17. '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.
18. Africa borders it on the west, and Australia and the East Indies are to the east. Asia lies to the north.
19. When I was 3 years old my family moved to Indonesia(then Dutch East Indies)where I experienced the cruelty and hardship of war by the Japanese who occupied Indonesia.
20. One of Conrad's sea-dog narrators pieces together the story of Axel Heyst, benign hermit and amateur philosopher, who isolates himself from humanity on an island in the East Indies.
21. It tells the story of a Dutch clerk who is working for the Dutch East Indies Company at the end of the eighteenth century, and who is based on the secure island of Dejima, in the bay of Nagasaki.
22. Betel Either of two different plants that are widely used in combination for chewing purposes in southern Asia and the East Indies.
23. He died still believing that he had found a new route to the East Indies.
24. But Columbus called these islands the Indies because he thought he had finally reached Asia (and the East Indies).
25. Many of these were merchant ships from the Dutch East Indies Company and included the ships of Abel Tasman.
26. A native or inhabitant of India or of the East Indies.
27. S. tried to design a gradual way of decolonization for Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), but when the war ended Indonesian nationalist immediately established a strong republican regime.