Spice Islands

基本解释

Abreu's expedition, which left malacca for the Spice Islands in December 1511, met with little success.
阿布雷乌率领的远征队在1511年11月离开马六甲，驶往香料群岛，但成效甚微。好评（1）
It was one of the key spices that give the Spice Islands their name, and some historians link its popularity in the spice trade to the hallucinatory effects that result from ingesting large amounts.
它是一种重要的香料，赋予了香料群岛现在的名字，而这与一些历史学家将其香料贸易的普及归功于大量摄取后引起的致幻作用有关。
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.
后来，西班牙人发现了哥伦布的错误，便把这里改名为西印度群岛，以区别于太平洋上的“香料群岛”（又名“东印度群岛”），即如今的印度尼西亚。

In the past 18 months, over 2, 500 people have been killed in the area, once known as the Spice Islands.
ECONOMIST: Indonesia’s unholy war
" And a history lesson, too: "By leading the way to the Spice Islands, it more or less changed the world.
FORBES: Prime Source
They came to cruise the remote spice islands in Indonesia, the dragon-dotted shores of Komodo, the scuba fantasyland of Raja Ampat, or simply to escape to Thailand and Burma.
FORBES: Magazine Article