wampum

基本解释

• n.贝壳念珠；金钱

同根派生

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英汉例句

双语例句

• 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。

权威例句

• 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.
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词组短语

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

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英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• (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

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