The way we have standard units like meters or degrees, early accounting used units like cowry shells or shekels of grain.

我们使用米或度等标准单位的方式，早期会计使用贝壳或谢克尔谷物等单位。

He saw majestic pavilions and towers of red jade, pearl palaces and gateways of cowry, and countless rooms of silence and secluded cells leading all the way to a jasper dais.

直至瑶台之下，见那菩提祖师端坐在台上，两边有三十个小仙侍立台下。