sundial

noun

1. 日晷
   a device used outdoors, especially in the past, for telling the time when the sun is shining. A pointed piece of metal throws a shadow on a flat surface that is marked with the hours like a clock, and the shadow moves around as the sun moves across the sky.

1. 日晷
   A sundial is a device used for telling the time when the sun is shining. The shadow of an upright rod falls onto a flat surface that is marked with the hours, and points to the correct hour.

1. As a time-measuring apparatus, the clepsydra is used more widely than the sundial.
   作为计时器，漏刻的使用比日晷史为普遍。
2. Lay your shadows over the sundial.
   把你的影子投放在日规上。
3. Or your favourite book beside the sundial.
   或是在日落留下一本你最喜欢的书。
4. There he showed a great deal of interest in doing things with his hands: he made a model of a windmill, he made water clocks, and he made a stone sundial.
   在那儿，他在手工劳动方面，表现出极大的兴趣：他做了一个风车模型、一些水钟，和一个石头日晷。
5. The sundial is the oldest known device for the measurement of time.
   日晷是已知的最古老的一种测算时间的装置。
6. Green lighthouse building shape is cylindrical, so some people give it nicknamed "sundial", its facade shutter can be adjusted, the light as the sun moves around the building rotates into the.
   绿色灯塔建筑外形是圆柱形的，所以有人给它起了外号叫“日晷”，其立面百叶可以调节，光照随着太阳移动围绕着建筑旋转而进入。
7. Moonlight was frosting the dew, and an old sundial threw a long shadow.
   月光把露水照得雪白，一座旧日规投出一条长长的影子。
8. Unearthed relics show that the sundial was used before the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC-AD 220). It had been popular until mechanical clocks were introduced to China.
   从出土文物来看，汉以前已使用日晷，在机械钟表传人中国之前，日晷一直是通常使用的计时器。
9. The hands are actually modeled after the shadow on a sundial.
   时针实际上是以日昝上的阴影为模型的。
10. The sundial works well only when the sun is shining. So, other ways were invented to measure the passing of time.
    日晷只有在太阳光照射下能工作，所以其它的时间测量方法被创造出来。
11. Humans have used many devices to measure time. The sundial was one of the earliest and simplest.
    人类使用了很多的装置去计量时间。日晷是其中最早和最简单的。
12. The sundial could do little more than cast a shadow, when clouds or night did not render it a useless decoration.
    日晷只能投影，要是天阴或夜幕低垂，就成了无用的装饰品。
13. The stationary arm whose shadow indicates the time on the sundial.
    能够用固定指针的影子在日晷上显示时间。
14. A sundial measures the movement of the sun across the sky each day.
    日晷测量每天太阳跨过天空的运动。
15. The invention and use of the gnomon-and-ruler, sundial, clepsydra and other time-measuring machines is evidence of Chinese wisdom.
    圭表、日晷、漏刻等计时仪器的发明和应用，证明中华民族是个充满智慧的民族。
16. Under it are a cluster of buildings such as Ziwei Hall, Sundial Shadow Hall and other auxiliary structures.
    台上陈列着大型铜制的天文仪器，台下有以紫微殿。晷影堂为主的附属建筑群。
17. Of course, a sundial did not work at night or on cloudy days, so men kept inventing other ways to keep track of time.
    当然，日晷在夜间或阴天不能使用，所以人们还发明了其他方法来度量时间。
18. By the sundial the solar term can be known too.
    该日晷还能确定当时所处的节气。
19. The structure, reading set and observing methods of the instruments for time measuring and keeping, such as gnomon, sundial, armillary sphere and clepsydra in Song dynasty, have been analysed and their observation errors have been obtained.
    对我国宋代测时设备圭表、日晷、浑仪和守时设备漏壶，从它们的结构，读数装置、观测方法等分析其观测误差。
20. This article gathers the function of description of time and space using shadows, and points out the significance of sundial for opening out and using the order of nature.
    本文把日晷表征时间与空间的功能汇总，还原日晷在揭示与利用自然规律方面的重要功能。
21. Figure Design of General Sundial Surface
    常用日晷晷面线图设计

noun

1. timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial