常見例句雙語例句A Moken tribesman in Myanmar's Andaman Islands displays two large cowrie shells.緬甸安達(dá)曼群島上，一位莫肯族人手里展示了兩枚大貨貝。Golden cowrie shells are among the hardest shells to find and are prized by collectors.黃金寶螺的貝殼極難找到，它們?yōu)槭詹丶宜瞥纭?/li>It is more likely that the beads were either simply fashionable throughout the region, or that they acted as currency, as cowrie shells did in some parts of Africa until historical times.更有可能的是，在那整個(gè)時(shí)代中，珠子不是一種遍布大陸的流行，就是作為一種流通貨幣的角色（由于瑪瑙貝在歷史上曾經(jīng)在非洲的一部分被作為貨幣使用）。權(quán)威例句Over the centuries, many things have served the purpose, from beads to cowrie shells to pigs.ECONOMIST: Cash remains kingCongo's has a catanga cross (a large copper cross), while Equatorial Guinea has a pair of cowrie shells.FORBES: Living People On Legal Tender 返回 cowrie