In 1602, the Dutch East India Company sold shares to investors, creating the first what?

1602年，荷兰东印度公司向投资者出售股票，创造了第一个什么？

The Dutch East India Company was intended to make money and battle competing European empires.

荷兰东印度公司本为赚钱和对抗竞争的欧洲国家。

The Dutch East India Company sliced the islands into plantations and imported an enslaved workforce.

荷兰东印度公司将这些岛屿划为种植园，并进口了一批受奴役的劳动力。

Fortunately, business innovation spearheaded by the Dutch East India Company transformed the economic landscape in the Netherlands.

幸运的是，以荷兰东印度公司 为首的商业革新改变了荷兰的经济格局。

Coen and the Dutch East India Company brought a prized commodity under their control and profits soared.

佐恩和荷兰东印度公司将一种珍贵的商品置于他们的控制之下，利润飙升。

In 1610 regulators in Amsterdam forbade short-selling, blaming it for a fall in the value of the Dutch East India Company.

1610年，阿姆斯特丹监管者禁止卖空，指责这种行为导致荷兰东印度公司市值下跌。

These initials belonged to the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or the Dutch East India Company — widely considered the most profitable corporation ever created.

它是 Verenigde OostindischeCompagnie 的缩写，或称荷兰东印度公司，普遍被认为是世上最获利的公司。

When the Dutch East India Company arrived in the early 1600s, its officials persuaded a group of orang kaya to sign a treaty.

当荷兰东印度公司在 1600 年抵达了班达群岛，官方和当地的富人们签了一个协议。

Once the offices of the Dutch East India Company, for the last three decades this 200-year-old building has been serving up the coolest old-world charm in Jakarta.

这座建筑物历史长达 200 年，过去 30 年一直是荷兰东印度公司的总部 完美渗现雅加达的旧世界迷人魅力。

The Dutch East India Company, founded in 1602, brought in staples, as well as luxury goods, from around the world.

荷兰东印度公司成立于1602年，从世界各地引进主食和奢侈品。

But in its day, it was one of six trading cities that joined forces to create the Dutch East India Company.

但在当时，它是联手创建荷兰东印度公司的六个贸易城市之一。

I mean, a few big companies so the first corporate bond was actually in Amsterdam, is a Dutch East India Company.

我的意思是， 有一些大公司， 所以第一张公司债券实际上是在阿姆斯特丹，是一家荷兰东印度公司。

Selling these shares in coffee houses and shipping ports across the continent, the Dutch East India Company unknowingly invented the world’s first stock market.

通过在整个非洲大陆的咖啡馆和航运港口出售这些股票，荷兰东印度公司在不知不觉中发明了世界上第一个股票市场。

The limited stock of the Dutch East India company probably repels from that trade many great mercantile capitals which would otherwise go to it.

荷兰东印度公司有限的股票可能会排斥许多原本会流向它的大商业资本。

The river is named after Henry Hudson, an Englishman who was sailing for the Dutch East India Company and explored it around 1609.

这条河以英国人亨利·哈德逊 (Henry Hudson) 的名字命名，他在 1609 年左右为荷兰东印度公司航行并探索了这条河。

Notwithstanding some extraordinary losses, occasioned partly by the malice of the Dutch East India company, and partly by other accidents, they carried on for many years a successful trade.

尽管部分原因是荷兰东印度公司的恶意，部分原因是其他事故，造成了一些特别的损失，但他们多年来一直保持着成功的贸易。

For instance, consider South Africa's history  under colonial rule. Since the 17th century, the Dutch East India Company had started to  settle in the western part of the country.

例如，想想南非在殖民统治下的历史。 从 17 世纪开始，荷兰东印度公司开始在该国西部定居。

There was an influx of Chinese porcelain during the early 17th century brought in by the Dutch East India Company and snapped up by an eager audience with surplus income to spend.

17世纪初，荷兰东印度公司带来了大量中国瓷器，并被拥有剩余收入的热切观众抢购一空。

This was formalized  in 1652 when the Dutch East India Company, known by its Dutch initials VOC, founded a  permanent outpost at Cape Town to act as a way-station for the VOC ships travelling to Dutch  possessions in East Asia.

1652 年，荷兰东印度公司（以其荷兰语缩写 VOC 闻名）在开普敦建立了一个永久前哨基地， 作为 VOC 船只前往东亚荷兰领地的中转站， 这一规定正式确立。