Spice Islands

基本解释

Abreu's expedition, which left malacca for the Spice Islands in December 1511, met with little success.
阿佈雷烏率領的遠征隊在1511年11月離開馬六甲，駛往香料群島，但成傚甚微。好評（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.
它是一種重要的香料，賦予了香料群島現在的名字，而這與一些歷史學家將其香料貿易的普及歸功於大量攝取後引起的致幻作用有關。
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.
後來，西班牙人發現了哥倫佈的錯誤，便把這裡改名爲西印度群島，以區別於太平洋上的“香料群島”（又名“東印度群島”），即如今的印度尼西亞。

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