cowrie
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈkaʊ.ri]
- 美式音标 [ˈkaʊr.i]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.[動]寶貝科寶貝；(從前南亞和非洲部分地區作貨幣用的)貨貝
英汉例句
- A Moken tribesman in Myanmar's Andaman Islands displays two large cowrie shells.
緬甸安達曼群島上，一位莫肯族人手裡展示了兩枚大貨貝。 - 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，它們爲收藏家所推崇。 - 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，在那整個時代中，珠子不是一種遍佈大陸的流行，就是作爲一種流通貨幣的角色（由於瑪瑙貝在歷史上曾經在非洲的一部分被作爲貨幣使用）。 - 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.
FORBES: Living People On Legal Tender
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- Cowrie Island 瑪瑙貝島;科瑞島
- Egg Cowrie 海兔螺
- asellus cowrie 浮標寶螺
- Tiger Cowrie 黑星寶螺
- Chestnut Cowrie 寶螺
短語
英英字典
- a small sea creature with a soft body and a brightly coloured shell, or the shell itself used in the past as money in parts of Africa and southern Asia
- any marine gastropod mollusc of the mostly tropical family Cypraeidae, having a glossy brightly marked shell with an elongated opening
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专业释义
- 寶貝科(cypraeidae) 寶貝,海蚆
- 瑪瑙貝