复数： cowries

A moken tribesman in myanmar 's andaman islands displays two large cowrie shells .

缅甸安达曼群岛上，一位莫肯族人手里展示了两枚大货贝。

Cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of south pacific and africa .

其壳在南非和亚洲的部分地区被用作货币的子安贝。

Long braids and cowrie shells : symbolise fertility and wealth

长长的辫带和贝壳：象征着生育力与富有。

In early human trade activities , a shell named cowrie has played a role as medium of commodities exchange , for its durability , brightening , portable and the characteristics of natural units , which is also the most primitive currency .

在人类早期的经济活动中，一种名为货贝的贝壳，以其坚固耐磨、光洁美丽、易于携带和具有自然单位的特点，充当了商品交换的媒介，这即是最原始的货币。

One of the first things that you learn in any economic anthropology course is that value is always relative and culturally anchored whether the goods being exchanged are cowrie shells ( used as a status symbol in the trobriand islands ) or dollar bills ( whose worth depends on trust in a central bank ) .

你在经济人类学课堂上最早学到的要点之一，就是价值永远是相对的，并与文化脱不开干系不管交换的物品是贝壳货币（在trobriand群岛被用作社会地位的象征），还是钞票（其价值取决于人们对央行的信心）。