'What papers? What sundial? ' he asked.

'什么文件？什么日晷仪？'他又问道。

Get that sundial and we can control time with ease.

拿到日晷，然后我们就可以轻松控制时间。

Today he's buried under a sundial set to Daylight Saving Time with a Latin inscription says " I only count the sunny hours" .

现在他埋葬于夏时制的日晷下，上面用拉丁文写着" 我只计算阳光灿烂的时间" 。

The sundial in the center is a Dutch design.

中心的日晷是荷兰的设计。

And sundials kind of automatically do this! But they have other… drawbacks.

日晷可以自动做到这一点！但它们也有其他的缺陷。

We have to add five and a fourth days or else our sundials break.

还得加上五又一天，否则日晷会崩掉。

Aristotle also thought that the earth was smaller than the other planets; a claim that was challenged by Eratosthenes, who used the shadows of sundials in Alexandria and Syene to calculate the circumference of the earth.

亚里士多德还球比其他行星小；埃拉托色尼对这一说法提出了质疑，他使用亚山大和赛伊尼的日冕阴影来计算球的周长。

One gloomy day, the clock on a church steeple, looking down on a sundial, said, " How stupid it is in you to stand there all the while like a stock! "

在一个阴霾的日子里，教堂塔尖上的时钟俯视着下面的日晷，说：“你真傻，就像树干似的一直站在那里！”

And they kinda are, actually, but here's the most important thing you need to understand about clocks, except for sundials and hourglasses, every single clock does the same thing.

实际上，它们有点，但是关于时钟，你需要了解的最重要的事情是，除了日晷和沙漏，每个钟做的事情都是一样的。

The sun, at that moment, broke forth from behind a cloud, and showed, by the sundial, that the clock was half an hour behind the right time.

就是那时，太阳从一片云彩后面喷薄而出，通过日晷显示出时钟走慢了半个小时。

And from the details we can see of the Curiosity rover itself, a sundial is there to indicate what time of the sol it is.

从细节上，我们还可以看到“好奇”号，其载有一个日晷，用来指示索尔时间。

'Some preposterous practical joke, ' said he. 'What have I to do with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such nonsense.'

‘一个荒唐的恶作剧，'他说，‘我和日晷仪啦、文件啦，有什么关系？对这种无聊的事我不屑一顾。’

Clocks and watches, and probably even sundials, were then unknown, so these divisions were marked by burning candles of equal lengths.

钟表，甚至日晷在当时也不人所知，因此这三块时间是通过点燃相同长度的蜡烛表示的。

The sundial gives the owner power to control time itself.

日晷给了拥有者控制时间的力量。

More precise time-keeping, like sundials and mechanical clocks, eventually came along to put time in more convenient boxes.

后来出现了更精确的计时方法，比如日晷、机械钟，让计时变得更方便。

" This is the envelope, " he continued. " The postmark is London — eastern division. Within are the very words which were upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the papers on the sundial.' "

“这就是那个信封，" 他继续说道，“邮戳盖的是伦敦东区。信封里还是我父亲接到的最后一封信里的几个字：'K.K.K'。然后是'把文件放在日晷仪上'。”

Today he's buried under a sundial set to Daylight Saving Time with a Latin inscription saying " I only count the sunny hours" .

今天，他被埋在一个设置夏令时的日晷下，上面写着“我只计算晴天的时间”。

The sundial, he was banished in a sundial.

日晷，他被关在日晷里了？

'What have I to do with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such nonsense.'

'我和日晷仪啦、文件啦，有什么关系？对这种无聊的事我不屑一顾。'

'Put the papers on the sundial, ' I read, peeping over his shoulder.

'把文件放在日晷仪上，'我从他肩膀背后望着信封念道。'