wampum
基本解释
- n.贝壳念珠；金钱
英汉例句
- The Lenape used a money system of their own invention called "wampum."
Lenape人使用一种自己发明的，称作“wampum”的货币系统。 - To make wampum, they sewed tiny black, purple, and white beads made from seashells into belts.
为了制造wampum，他们会把用贝壳制成的黑色、紫色以及白色的小珠子缝在一起制成条带。 - 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.
由于非常渴望获得利润，荷兰人一度自己在荷兰生产wampum，想在新阿姆斯特丹用它来与土著人交易。 - 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
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- Wampum Prayer 贝壳祷告
- W Wampum 街道地址
- Purple Wampum 贝壳紫
- the Two Row Wampum 两排贝壳串珠条约
- Visvim Wampum BwadS Tee 项链
短语
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