However their most lucrative trading good was their purple dye known as Tyrian purple.
然而,最有利可图的交易商品是他们的紫色染料,被称为骨螺紫。
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The production of the dye first began in Tyre during the Bronze Age, which is why it is known as " Tyrian purple" .
这种染料的生产最早始于青铜时代的提尔,这就是为什么它被称为“提尔紫”。
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Tyrian purple was the most prized dye and made exclusively from marine snails in Lebanon.
Tyrian 紫是最珍贵的染料,完全由黎巴嫩的海蜗牛制成。
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A lot of work went into producing the dye as more than 10,000 snails were needed to create just one gram of tyrian purple.
制造染料耗费许多工程,光一克的泰尔紫就需要超过一万只蜗牛。
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The favorite imperial color in Roman times, Tyrian purple, was a bright pigment made from the glands of sea snails, and it could take 12,000 snails to make just 2 grams of the color.
Tyrian purple (Greek, πορφύρα, porphyra, Latin:purpura), also known as Tyrian red, royal purple, imperial purple or imperial dye, is a bromine-containing reddish-purple natural dye. It is a secretion produced by several species of predatory sea snails in the family Muricidae, rock snails originally known by the name Murex.
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近义词
n.
dye, dyestuff, reddish purple, royal purple
英英词典
tyrian purple n.
a red-purple to deep purple dye obtained from snails or made synthetically