'What papers? What sundial? ' he asked.

'文件？日晷仪？'他又问道。

The sundial, he was banished in a sundial.

日晷，他被关在日晷里了？

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。

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 gives the owner power to control time itself.

日晷给了拥有者控制时间的力量。

The sundial in the center is a Dutch design.

中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！但它们有其他的缺陷。

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

正在吹嘘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在古日晷旁的玫瑰树飞去了。

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

还得加上五又四分之一天，否则日晷会崩掉。

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

凭借日晷你横斗转，世间的脚步正蹒跚地走向永恒。

'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，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.

'把文件放在日晷仪上，'我从他肩膀背后望着信封念道。'

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

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

Sundial wouldn't be some warhead loaded up onto a  bomber and dropped on a target.

日晷计划不会是那种装在轰炸机上然后投向目标的弹头。

The part of a sundial that casts a shadow.

日晷指针。日晷上投射阴影的部分。

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.

在古代，人们用日晷来计时。