He was a local potentate in sumatra the indonesian island that cuts like a scimitar through the eastern indian ocean separating it from the strait of malacca .
他是苏门答腊岛上的土霸王，这座印尼岛屿像一把弯刀穿过东印度洋，与马六甲海峡隔海相望。
It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles .
