cowrie

the banning of currency trading is the modern equivalent of replacing the coin of the realm with cowrie shells.

在现代社会中，禁止货币交易等于用原始贝币取代英格兰王国硬币-这纯粹是历史的倒退。

golden cowrie shells have been used as currency and religious symbols throughout the south pacific.

黄金宝螺的贝壳在整个南太平洋地区已用来作为货币和宗教的象征。

remains of cowrie names and their classifiers in the ancient bai language

古白语贝币名和量词的遗存

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。

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.

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。

once used as status symbols among fiji rulers , the golden cowrie is prized by shell collectors .

曾经用作斐济统治者社会地位的象征，黄金宝螺被贝壳收集者看作最有价值的珍品。

an ancient game of india similar to backgammon that uses cowrie shells instead of dice.

戏，类似于十五子棋，但用玛瑙贝代替骰子。

Cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of South Pacific and Africa.

其壳在南非和亚洲的部分地区被用作货币的子安贝。

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。