cowrie
宝贝
常用释义
英音[ ˈkaʊri ]
美音[ ˈkaʊri ]
变形
复数:
cowries
基本释义
- n. 宝贝；玛瑙贝；货贝（从前南亚和非洲部分地区作货币用的）
例句
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1·Long braids and cowrie shells: Symbolise fertility and wealth.长长的辫带和贝壳：象征着生育力与富有。
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2·Other ships. Now, you see, when you fellows were shooting up the Cowrie.其他船舶。现在，你看，当你研究人员拍摄了贝。
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3·A hundred years ago you could still pay your taxes in Uganda in cowrie shells.100年前你还能用子安贝贝壳在乌干达缴税。
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4·For thismother-to-be, Thompson created a design based on cowrie shells."They're汤普森根据玛瑙贝为这位准妈妈创作了一幅画。
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5·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。
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6·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。
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7·It is generally believed that the cowrie is a kind of currency and possesses the meaning of wealth.学术界一直以来认为贝是作为货币，具有财富意义而被赏赐。
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8·The item that served as money over the broadest geographic area and the longest period of time was the cowrie shell.担任该项目的资金超过了最广泛的地理区域和时间最长的时期是贝壳。
同根词
词根：
cowry
cowry
n
宝贝（等于cowrie）；贝壳