'What papers? What sundial? ' he asked.

'什么文件？什么日晷仪？'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日晷吗？

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。

The boasting clock now held his tongue, and the dial only smiled at his folly.

正的时钟这下可住了嘴，日晷转盘只是对它笑了笑而已。

So the Nightingale flew over to the Rose-tree that was growing round the old sun-dial.

于是夜莺就朝着那棵长古日晷旁的玫瑰树飞去了。

Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know time's thievish progress to eternity.

凭借日晷你心知星横斗转，世间的脚步正蹒跚地走向永恒。

The sundial gives the owner power to control time itself.

日晷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.'

'我和日晷仪啦、文件啦，有什么关系？对这种无聊的事我不屑一顾。'

The sundial, he was banished in a sundial.

日晷，他被关日晷里了？

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。

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

'把文件放日晷仪上，'我从他肩膀背后望着信封念道。'

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。

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.

那里他们发现了一圈绿色的草坪，中央有一个日晷。

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

'花园里的日晷仪，别处没有，'我说，‘文件一定是被毁掉的那些。'

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

古代，人们用日晷来计时。

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

日晷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，钟表时间与日晷时间之间可能存差异。

The princess looked at the sundial.

公主看着日晷。