wampum
基本解释
- n.貝殼唸珠；金錢
英汉例句
- The Lenape used a money system of their own invention called "wampum."
Lenape人使用一種自己發明的，稱作“wampum”的貨幣系統。 - To make wampum, they sewed tiny black, purple, and white beads made from seashells into belts.
爲了制造wampum，他們會把用貝殼制成的黑色、紫色以及白色的小珠子縫在一起制成條帶。 - At one point, the Dutch -- eager to improve their profits -- produced their own wampum in Holland, hoping to use it back in New Amsterdam to trade with the natives.
由於非常渴望獲得利潤，荷蘭人一度自己在荷蘭生産wampum，想在新阿姆斯特丹用它來與土著人交易。 - An accountant by trade, Stevens had just pledged that he wouldn't touch money--be it cash, credit, check or wampum--for a whole year.
FORBES
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- Wampum Prayer 貝殼禱告
- W Wampum 街道地址
- Purple Wampum 貝殼紫
- the Two Row Wampum 兩排貝殼串珠條約
- Visvim Wampum BwadS Tee 項鏈
短語
英英字典
- (formerly) money used by North American Indians, made of cylindrical shells strung or woven together, esp white shells rather than the more valuable black or purple ones