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在大西洋和墨西哥湾、加勒比海之间。由一千二百多个岛屿和众多暗礁、环礁组成。面积约238万平方千米。15世纪哥伦布到此，误以为是印度附近的岛屿，后因群岛位于西半球，故称西印度群岛”。自南向北分为胁的列斯、大安的列斯和巴哈马等三大组群岛。

• 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。

• Few words of African origin have survived and found a permanent place in the popular speech of the English in West India.

  仅有少数源于非洲的词语残留至今，并且在西印度群岛英语的流行口语中找到一个永恒的归宿。

• Divers and fish hover over the remains of a ship that broke up on one of the many shallow reefs around the Cayman Islands, West Indies.

  水下沉船残骸图片。潜水员和鱼类徘徊在一艘遗骸的船舶解体之上，在其中的许多浅层岛礁周围，开曼群岛，西印度群岛。

• 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。

• Since then, he, as a member of the British Navy, was involved in the French West Indies fleet operations.

  其后，他作为英国海军的一员，参与了在西印度群岛对法国舰队的作战。

• '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。