cowrie

cowrie

美 [?ka?ri] 　英 ['ka?ri]

• n.寶貝貝殼（舊時亞非部分地區用作貨幣的小貝殼）
• 網絡瑪瑙貝；貝幣；這個人真是個寶貝

詞形變化

復數：cowries  

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

n.

1. 【貝】瑪瑙貝

英英解釋

n.	1. a shiny, colored shell of a sea animal, used in the past as money in parts of Africa and Asia

例句

Golden cowrie shells have been used as currency and religious symbols throughout the South Pacific.

黃金寶螺的貝殼在整個南太平洋地區已用來作為貨幣和宗教的象征。

Golden cowrie shells are among the hardest shells to find and are prized by collectors.

黃金寶螺的貝殼極難找到，它們為收藏家所推崇。

The banning of currency trading is the modern equivalent of replacing the coin of the Realm with cowrie shells.

在現代社會中，禁止貨幣交易等于用原始貝幣取代英格蘭王國硬幣-這純粹是歷史的倒退。

A hundred years ago you could still pay your taxes in Uganda in cowrie shells.

100年前你還能用子安貝貝殼在烏干達繳稅。

Once used as status symbols among Fiji rulers , the golden cowrie is prized by shell collectors .

曾經用作斐濟統治者社會地位的象征，黃金寶螺被貝殼收集者看作最有價值的珍品。

An ancient game of India similar to backgammon that uses cowrie shells instead of dice.

戲，類似于十五子棋，但用瑪瑙貝代替骰子。

Remains of Cowrie Names and Their Classifiers in the Ancient Bai Language

古白語貝幣名和量詞的遺存