East India Company

基本解釋

When her husband went bankrupt and moved to India with the East India Company, she followed.
當她的丈夫破產(chǎn)跟著東印度公司移居到印度時，她也跟著一起去了。
The East India Company was a microcosm of this uncertainty—half military, half commercial, a state within a state.
東印度公司就是這種不確定性的縮影---半軍事半商業(yè)，可謂國家中的國家。
But as with the East India Company the real abuse of power—and the real threat to democracy—comes when commercial interest becomes intertwined with the state.
但是正如東印度公司一樣，真正的權利濫用——也是對民主的真正威脅——是在商業(yè)利益與國家息息相關的情況下產(chǎn)生的。

The East India Company came here as a trader and ended up owning the country.
ECONOMIST: A survey of world trade
The parallels between the East India Company and today's state-owned firms are not exact, to be sure.
ECONOMIST: The East India Company
The East India Company controlled a standing army of some 200, 000 men, more than most European states.
ECONOMIST: The East India Company

the company chartered in 1600 by the British government to trade in the East Indies: after being driven out by the Dutch, it developed trade with India until the Indian Mutiny (1857), when the Crown took over the administration: the company was dissolved in 1874 1600

東印度公司
The Dutch occupied Jakarta of Indonesia in 1619, as the base for the Dutch East India Company's headquarters.
1619年荷蘭人占領了印度尼西亞的雅加達地區(qū),并以此為基地建設荷蘭東印度公司的總部巴達維亞。