wampum
英 ['w?mp?m]
美['w?mp?m]
- n. 貝殼念珠；金錢
英文詞源
- wampum (n.)
- string of seashell beads used as money by Native Americans, 1630s, shortened from New England Algonquian wampumpeag (1620s), "string of white (shell beads);" said to be compounded from wab "white" + ompe "string" + plural suffix -ag.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. They paid a lot of wampum for the job.
- 他們?yōu)槟枪ぷ鞲冻龊芏嗟腻X.
來自辭典例句
- 2. At first they copied the Native Americans and used wampum.
- 最初,他們模仿本土的美國(guó)人用貝殼串珠當(dāng)作錢.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 3. I brought some wampum from North America.
- 我從北美買了一些貝殼串珠.
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- 4. Wampum was made of seashells.
- 貝殼串珠是用海貝殼制作的.
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