wampum 中文意思是什麼
wampum
解釋
n. 名詞 1. (以前印第安人作貨幣或飾品的)貝殼串珠。2. 〈美俚〉錢。
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Time they were stopping up in the city arms pisser burke told me there was an old one there with a cracked loodheramaun of a nephew and bloom trying to get the soft side of her doing the mollycoddle playing bzique to come in for a bit of the wampum in her will and not eating meat of a friday because the old one was always thumping her craw and taking the lout out for a walk
布盧姆指望她在遺囑里贈給自己點兒什麼,就試圖使她的心腸軟下來。於是,就對她百般奉承,和顏悅色地陪她玩比克181牌戲。老太婆總是做出一副虔誠的樣子,每逢星期五,布盧姆也跟著不吃肉,還帶那個蠢才去散步。 -
I brought some wampum from north america
我從北美買了一些貝殼串珠。 -
Wampum circulated as legal tender for private debts in massachusetts until 1661 and was used as money in new york as late as 1701
貝殼數珠在馬薩諸塞作為法定貨幣用來清償私人債務一直流通到1661年,在紐約作為貨幣使用知道1701年。 -
In the american colonies one of the earliest forms of money, borrowed from the indians, was wampum, black and white polished beads made from clam shells
美洲殖民地最早的一種貨幣形式是借用印第安人的貝殼數珠,一種蚌殼磨成的黑白珠子。
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