East India Company

基本解释

When her husband went bankrupt and moved to India with the East India Company, she followed.
当她的丈夫破产跟着东印度公司移居到印度时，她也跟着一起去了。
The East India Company was a microcosm of this uncertainty—half military, half commercial, a state within a state.
东印度公司就是这种不确定性的缩影---半军事半商业，可谓国家中的国家。
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.
但是正如东印度公司一样，真正的权利滥用——也是对民主的真正威胁——是在商业利益与国家息息相关的情况下产生的。

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

东印度公司
The Dutch occupied Jakarta of Indonesia in 1619, as the base for the Dutch East India Company's headquarters.
1619年荷兰人占领了印度尼西亚的雅加达地区,并以此为基地建设荷兰东印度公司的总部巴达维亚。