cowrie

常见例句

A Moken tribesman in Myanmar's Andaman Islands displays two large cowrie shells.
缅甸安达曼群岛上，一位莫肯族人手里展示了两枚大货贝。
Golden cowrie shells are among the hardest shells to find and are prized by collectors.
黄金宝螺的贝壳极难找到，它们为收藏家所推崇。
It is more likely that the beads were either simply fashionable throughout the region, or that they acted as currency, as cowrie shells did in some parts of Africa until historical times.
更有可能的是，在那整个时代中，珠子不是一种遍布大陆的流行，就是作为一种流通货币的角色（由于玛瑙贝在历史上曾经在非洲的一部分被作为货币使用）。

Over the centuries, many things have served the purpose, from beads to cowrie shells to pigs.
ECONOMIST: Cash remains king
Congo's has a catanga cross (a large copper cross), while Equatorial Guinea has a pair of cowrie shells.
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