" Do you think we could find any wampum here, Joe? " asked Henry.
“你认为我们能在这里找到任何贝壳吗，乔？”亨利问道。
wampum
/'wɒmpəm/ /'wɔmpəm/
英汉-汉英词典
n. 贝壳念珠；[俚]金钱
词组 | 习惯用语
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- swampy adj. 沼泽的；沼泽多的；湿地的；松软的
- wimple vt. 用头巾围住；使起涟漪 vi. 起皱摺；起涟漪
原声例句
篷车少年
篷车少年
Do you remember from school that they made shell money called wampum?
您还记得在学校时，他们制作了一种叫做贝壳币的贝壳钱吗？
篷车少年
" You think they sat here to make wampum? " asked Henry.
“你认为他们坐在这里是为了制作贝壳串珠？”亨利问道。
破产姐妹视频版 第6季
Now it makes sense that Earl asked me for wampum yesterday.
难怪昨天厄尔跟我要印第安贝壳串币。
最后的莫希干人（上）
He also bore a knife in a girdle of wampum, like that which confined the scanty garments of the Indian, but no tomahawk.
他还在一条贝壳腰带上带了一把刀，就像束缚印第安人单薄衣服的腰带一样，但没有战斧。
英语百科
Wampum
Wampum are traditional shell beads of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of the indigenous people of North America. Wampum include the white shell beads fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell; and the white and purple beads made from the quahog, or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam.
近义、反义、联想词
近义词
n.money, beads, string of beads
联想词
英英词典
wampum n.
- informal terms for money
- small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency
synonymous： boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar
synonymous： peag, wampumpeag