sundials

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。

They have these huge, magnificent sundials.

那有一些很大而且很宏伟的日晷。

Or your favourite book beside the sundial.

或是在日落留下一本你最喜欢的书。

Sundials have been around for centuries because are accurate and easy to make.

人类已使用日晷好几个世纪,因为它们精准又容易制造.

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。

16. The development of mechanical timepieces spurred the search for more accurate sundials with which to regulate them.

16.机械计时器的发展促使人们寻求更精确的日晷，以便校准机械计时器。

English churchyards often have sundials in them& sometimes there is one on the church itself.

英国的教堂大院里通常设置日规，有时候教堂上也有一个。

Figure Design of General Sundial Surface

常用日晷晷面线图设计

For many years sundials have cast their spell over scientists and mathematicians...

多年来，日晷一直吸引着科学家和数学家们。

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。

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。

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.

These circles were called "sundials".

这些圆圈被叫做日晷。

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.

For many years sundials have cast their spell over scientists and mathematicians.

多年来，日晷一直吸引着科学家和数学家们。

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。

The sundial surface is therefore parallel to the equatorial plane.

使晷面平行于天赤道面。

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.

On cloudy days or at night it was impossible to tell the time with a sun clock or a sundial.

在阴天或晚上,用太阳钟或日晷是无法分辨时间的。

The upper end of the sundial points right to the North Pole ， and the lower end to the South.

这样，晷针的上端正好指向北天极，下端正好指向南天极。

These are the first-chosen apparel sources for fashion, underclothes, bras, shoes and decorating materials. Sundials on houses and in gardens are a very popular decoration today.

是时装、衣裤、装、胸、类、饰材料的首选面料。如今把日规当作装饰品装在屋上和花园中是非常时髦的。

By the sundial the solar term can be known too.

该日晷还能确定当时所处的节气。

Churchyards often have sundials in them.

教堂大院里通常设置日晷.

For many years sundials have cast their spell over scientists and mathematicians

多年来，日晷一直吸引着科学家和数学家们。

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。

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。

Lay your long shadows on the sundials

将你修长的影子落在日晷之上

Sundials on houses and in gardens are a very popular decoration today.

如今把日规当作装饰品装在屋上和花园中是非常时髦的。

It's like a huge sundial,' I heard one reporter say.

“它就像一个巨型日晷。”一位记者如是说。

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.