The first of the two ships to reach Java after the race had begun was the Thermopylae, but on the Indian Ocean, the Cutty Sark took the lead.

比赛开始后，“赛姆皮雷”号率先抵达爪哇岛。但在印度洋上，“卡蒂萨克”号驶到了前面。

属类：学习英语-新概念英语-第三册

When a German buys something from a Japanese, or an Indian sells something to a Frenchman, they often use English.

当一个德国人从一个日本人那里买东西，或者一个印度人卖东西给一个法国人时，他们都经常使用英语。

属类：学习英语-教材英语-初三

That Indian club is bottle-shaped.

那根(体操)棒呈瓶状

属类：学习英语-易错英语-

Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indian were bewildered by politicians, bankers and business-men, and unhorsed by fences, laws and alien taboos.

习惯于自然力和印第安人作斗争求生存的西部生活,被政客、银行家和商人搞乱了,围起来的藩蓠,颁布的法律和外来的戒律使得他们不再能骑马驰骋。

属类：学习英语-新概念英语-第四册

It obviously could not tell the difference between Indian music and jazz!

显然它分辨不出印度音乐和爵士音乐之间的差别。

属类：学习英语-新概念英语-第二册:lesson 42

Many Indian tribes have been kept segregated on reservations.

许多印第安人部落一直被限制在居留地内。

属类：学习英语-同义词辨析-

Indian music is not written down. There is a basic pattern of notes which the musician follows. But a lot of modern music is also written. India produces more films than any other country in the world.

印度音乐没有写下来。它有一个音乐家必须遵循的基本调式。但许多现代音乐还是写下来了。印度制作的影片比世界上任何其他国家都多。

属类：学习英语-教材英语-高二下

These are the works of his Indian Summer when, in the last five years of his life, inspiration came to him once more.

这些是在他生命的最后5年里，他再度焕发青春时创作的作品。

属类：学习英语-修辞篇-典故

And Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Indian engineers are graduating in droves from California’s colleges.

中国、韩国、菲律宾和印度的工程师一批批地从加州的大学毕业。

属类：学习英语-新概念英语-第四册

A Chinese is an Asian, a Japanese is an Asian, and an Indian is an Asian. So is an Iranian, a Palestinian, an Iraqi, a Filipino, a Singaporean.

中国人是亚洲人，日本人是亚洲人，印度人是亚洲人，伊朗人、巴勒斯坦人、伊拉克人、菲律宾人、新加坡人也是亚洲人。

属类：学习英语-许国璋英语-人口最多的洲

You can also use either…or with nouns. For example, when it is time to eat lunch, I may tell my coworker, "I feel like eating either Chinese or Indian food today. The structure is:

你也可以用either……or连接名词。例如，到了吃午饭的时间，我可以跟同事说，“我今天想吃中餐或印度餐。”这个句子的结构是：

属类：学习英语-Ask a Teacher 名师答疑-名师答疑：Either, Or 和 Neither, Nor的用法

He says two men were shooting turkeys together. One of them was a white man. The other was an American Indian . The white man began stating reasons why he should get all the turkeys for himself. But the American Indian stopped him. He told the white man, "Now, I talk turkey to you."

他说，两名男子一起去打火鸡。一位是白人，另一位是印第安人。这位白人开始叨叨为什么他要拿走所有火鸡。但这位印第安人打断了他。他对白人男子说，"Now, I talk turkey to you."（注1）

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-词汇掌故：行不通

Some people say it came from the Native American Indian tribe known as the Choctaw. The Choctaw word "okeh" means the same as the American word okay. Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the nineteenth century. The language spread across the country.

有人说，它来自被称之为乔克托族的美洲土著印第安部落。乔克托语“okeh”跟美式英语中的单词okay同义。专家表示，美国西部的早期探险者在20世纪说乔克托语，这种语言传播到了全国。

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-词汇掌故：OK这个单词的出处

One story is that the word was used to mean poor farmers or uneducated people. No wonder the state legislature instead calls Indiana the Crossroads of America. Iowa’s nickname, the Hawkeye State, is in honor of Black Hawk, an Indian chief who spent most of his life in neighboring Illinois!

有种说法是，胡希尔这个词指的是贫穷的农民或没受过教育的人。难怪该州议会改称该州为“美国十字路口”。爱荷华州（又译为依阿华州）别名是“鹰眼州”，这是为了纪念在伊利诺伊州邻近奉献一生的印第安酋长黑鹰。（注：印第安酋长“黑鹰”领导印第安人反抗白人屠杀。）

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-词汇掌故：美国各州别名 2

In India, people have been using fireworks for more than five hundred years. A great Indian fireworks show takes place during the religious celebration of Diwali, every autumn.

在印度，人们燃放焰火已有500多年历史。每年印度宗教节日排灯日（Diwali）期间会举行大型印度焰火晚会。

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-焰火