花螺的英文：
babylon shell

London was also called the modern Babylon.
伦敦也被称为现代巴比伦。

There they remained until Cyrus took Babylon.
他们一直留在那里，直到塞勒斯攻占巴比伦。

But the idea of any kind of control by the people over their rulers was as alien to babylon as it was to Egypt
但是他们同埃及人一样，都属于被统治阶级，不能凌驾于统治阶级之上。

One odd contrast between the life of old Thebes or Babylon and modem life was the absence of coined money.
古底比斯或巴比伦人的生活和现代人生活的一个悬殊差别是没有铸造的货币。

By 2000 BC the great city of Babylon dominated the Euphrates about 60 miles south of present-day baghdad
到公元前2000年左右，巴比伦城邦控制了今天巴格达南部约60英里地的幼发拉底河流域。

shell collecting
贝壳采集

The snail retreated into its shell.
蜗牛缩进壳里去了。

reactivation of quoted shell company
上市空壳公司恢复业务

To bombard with mortar shells.
用砂浆砌合

The shell of a snail is its skeleton.
蜗牛的壳是它的骨骼。