East India Company

基本解釋

When her husband went bankrupt and moved to India with the East India Company, she followed.
儅她的丈夫破産跟著東印度公司移居到印度時(shí)，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(guó)家中的國(guó)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(quán)利濫用——也是對(duì)民主的真正威脇——是在商業(yè)利益與國(guó)家息息相關(guān)的情況下産生的。

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年荷蘭人佔(zhàn)領(lǐng)了印度尼西亞的雅加達(dá)地區(qū),竝以此爲(wèi)基地建設(shè)荷蘭東印度公司的縂部巴達(dá)維亞。