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。

  1. 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。
  2. I brought some wampum from north america

    我從北美買了一些貝殼串珠。
  3. 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。
  4. 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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