tortoise shell

基本解釋

OBJECTIVE:Seeking the technology standard of processing tortoise shell and the standard of the extent of pulverizing processed tortoise shell.
前言：目的：探討龜甲炮制工藝標準及炮制品粉碎度標準。
Moreover, underscoring the woman's apparent special status, her head was placed on top of one tortoise shell, and the other shells were arrayed above, below, and around her body.
此外，墳墓很明顯還強調(diào)了這個婦女的特殊地位，她的頭被放在一個龜甲的上面，并且其它龜殼被排列在身體的上面，下面和周圍。
A broken tortoise shell found at the Luoyang excavation site was likely used for psychic practices thousands of years ago.
這個破損的龜殼出土于洛陽墓葬遺址，很可能在數(shù)千年前就被用于占卜儀式。
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Tortoiseshell is the hard shell of a kind of sea turtle. It is brown and yellow in colour and is often polished and used to make jewellery and ornaments.
Tortoiseshell means made of tortoiseshell or made of a material which resembles tortoiseshell.