西印度群岛

Orange cup coral clusters on a pier piling on Bonaire Island in the West Indies.

橙色杯状珊瑚群集在一个码头打桩之上在博内尔岛西印度群岛。

ELIZABETH WATSON Learning Res ource Centre, The Uni versity of the W est Indi es,Bridgetown, Barbados

伊丽莎白沃森学习资源中心，西印度群岛大学，布里奇敦，巴巴多斯

It s an article of faith among West Indians th at they have the best cricket team in the world .

在西印度群岛的人中有这样一个信条，即他们拥有世界上最强的板球队。

The West Indies is a large group of islands that separate the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean.

西印度群岛是指加勒比海和大西洋之间的一大片岛屿。

The West Indies is a large group of islands that separate the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean.

西印度群岛由加勒比海和大西洋之间的一大片岛屿组成。

His personal connection with the Danish Court led him to choose the Danish possessions in the West Indies and in Greenland for the field of his labours.

他的个人方面与丹麦法院，促使他选择了丹麦的遗物，在西印度群岛和格陵兰为外地的，他的劳动。

He operates the purchase of Alaska and Midway Island, negotiates with Denmark to purchase the Danish West Indies, plans to control Hawaii and obtain the construction right of Panama Canal from Columbia.

为此，他主持购买了阿拉斯加和中途岛，与丹麦谈判购买西印度群岛，计划控制夏威夷，从哥伦比亚手中获得建造巴拿马运河的权利等。

A person of European descent born in the W Indies or Spanish America.

生于西印度群岛或美洲的西班牙殖民地内欧洲人的后裔。

The history of the word maroon, which we associate with desert islands, takes us back to the days of slavery, when the noun maroon was a term in English for a Black person who lived in the mountains and forests of Dutch Guiana and the West Indies, a term that is still used in parts of the Caribbean.

单词maroon 与荒岛有关联，其历史可追溯到奴隶制时代，当时英语中的maroon 这个词指的是生活在荷属圭亚那和西印度群岛的黑人，在加勒比的某些地区这个词仍在使用。

The rapid conversion of the Native Americans and the consequent enthusiasm of the missionary-minded in Spain led to the further spread of the order in the West Indies; before 1505, Ferdinand V, king of Castile, found it necessary to issue a decree that new convents should be placed at least five leagues apart.

快速转换的土著美国人，因而热情的传教士想法在西班牙导致进一步蔓延秩序西印度群岛；在1505年，费迪南德五，卡斯蒂利亚国王，发现有必要把问题一项法令，新修道院应至少有五名联赛四分五裂。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。