'What papers? What sundial? ' he asked.

'什么文件？什么仪？'他又问道。

Any of y'all ever heard of the sundial of Kronos?

你们听说过克罗诺斯的？

The sundial in the center is a Dutch design.

中心的是荷兰的设计。

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

以自动做到这一点！但它们也有其他的缺陷。

The sundial gives the owner power to control time itself.

给了拥有者控制时间的力量。

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

'我和仪啦、文件啦，有什么关系？对这种无聊的事我不屑一顾。'

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，如、机械钟，让计时变得更方便。

So a sundial may be as much as sixteen minutes ahead or fourteen minutes behind a regular clock.

所以太阳时间和时钟时间相，会提前16分钟，或是推迟14分钟。

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

'把文件放在仪上，'我从他肩膀背后望着信封念道。'

The sundial, he was banished in a sundial.

，他被关在里了？

Zeus entrusted the sundial to Meg, and ordered it to sink in the Princess Academy to be kept safe.

宙斯信任她，并将它藏在公主学院，保证安全。

Get that sundial and we can control time with ease.

拿到，然后我们就以轻松控制时间。

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

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

There they found a circle of green lawn with a sundial in the center.

在那里他们发现了一圈绿色的草坪，中央有一个。

In ancient times, people used sundials to tell the time.

在古代，人们用来计时。

A sundial is a flat circle with a stick in the middle.

是一个中间有根棍子的平面圆盘。

Therefore, there could have been a difference between clock time and sundial time.

因此，钟表时间与时间之间存在差异。

The shadow on the sundial can hardly be seen at noon.

中午时分, 太阳表上的影子几乎看不见。

'The sundial in the garden. There is no other, ' said I; 'but the papers must be those that are destroyed.'

'花园里的仪，别处没有，'我说，‘文件一定是被毁掉的那些。'

The princess looked at the sundial.

公主看着。