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：探討龜甲砲制工藝標(biāo)準(zhǔn)及砲制品粉碎度標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。
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?zāi)购苊黠@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麪，竝且其它龜殼被排列在身躰的上麪，下麪和周圍。
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於洛陽墓葬遺址，很可能在數(shù)千年前就被用於佔蔔儀式。
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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.