cowrie

noun

1. 宝贝贝壳（旧时亚非部分地区用作货币的小贝壳）
   a small shiny shell that was used as money in the past in parts of Africa and Asia

1. One problem was that there was nothing in British law to stop agents making a contract in any mutually agreed currency, whether that was dollars, sterling or cowrie shells.
   一个问题是，英国法律不阻止当事人用任何商定的货币（无论是美元、英镑还是贝壳类货币）达成合同。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. Washington: rumours that Asian central banks are considering diversifying their foreign exchange reserves into cowrie shells spark panic selling of the US dollar.
   9月，华盛顿：有谣传称亚洲各国央行正考虑将外汇储备多样化、转换成贝壳类货币，这引发了美元的恐慌性抛售。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. Remains of Cowrie Names and Their Classifiers in the Ancient Bai Language THE WHITE DUCK
   古白语贝币名和量词的遗存
9. Cowrie pattern area is smaller than fast fracture area. Micromorphology shows that the fatigue striation is the main pattern. So it is the early fatigue fracture.
   结果表明，断口宏观上有明显的贝纹线花样，贝纹区面积较小，而瞬断区面积很大，其微观形态主要为疲劳辉纹，因此泵轴的断裂属早期疲劳断裂。

noun

1. any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells

   Synonym:    cowry