参考例句

1. They paid a lot of wampum for the job.

   他们为那工作付出很多的钱。

2. At first they copied the Native Americans and used wampum .

   最初，他们模仿本土的美国人用贝壳串珠当作钱。

3. "A party of Indians- in their savage finery of curiously embroidered deer-skin robes, wampum -belts, red and yellow ochre, and feathers, and armed with the bow and arrow and stone-headed spear."

   一群印第安人,身穿有着野蛮人华丽的、绣着奇形怪状图案的鹿皮袍,腰束贝壳缀成的带子,头戴由红色和黄色赭石及羽毛做成的饰物,背挎弓箭,手执石尖长矛,

4. White shell beads used as wampum .

   白色贝壳串珠用作贝壳串珠的白色贝壳小珠

5. Wampum was made of seashells.

   贝壳串珠是用海贝壳制作的。

6. 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种货币形式是借用印第安人的贝壳数珠，一种蚌壳磨成的黑白珠子。

7. Wampum circulated as legal tender for private debts in Massachusetts until 1661 and was used as money in New York as late as 1701.

   贝壳数珠在马萨诸塞作为法定货币用来清偿私人债务一直流通到1661年，在纽约作为货币使用知道1701年。