单词sundial
n.: 日晷
网络: 日规；日晷仪；日晷仪台
日晷:
a device used outdoors, especially in the past, for telling the time when the sun is shining. A pointed piece of metal throws a shadow on a flat surface that is marked with the hours like a clock, and the shadow moves around as the sun moves across the sky.
日晷
复数：sundials
Humans have used many devices to measure time. The sundial was one of the earliest and simplest.
人们利用很多种计时的设备，如日晷就是早期较为简单的一种。
Ten thousand years after know, take sundial and water clock to see an emperor, speak to Zu B pure the sun and moon circulate of truth.
万年知道后，就带着日晷和漏壶去见皇上，对祖乙讲清了日月运行的道理。
A stake used for this purpose was the earliest type of sundial and was called a gnomon.
这种特定的标杆就是最早的一种日晷仪，人们称之为日晷仪标杆。
about in the gate two sides are exhibiting the clear Qian Longyear the fine quantity and said the sundial (free opens to tourist).
阙左右门内两侧陈列着清乾隆年间嘉量和曰晷（均免费向游人开放）。
Of course, a sundial did not work AT night or on cloudy days, so men kept inventing other ways to keep track of time.
当然，日晷在夜间或阴天不能使用，所以人们还发明了其他方法来度量时间。
Others believe it was a burial place or perhaps even a giant sundial to tell the time.
还有一些人认为这是殡葬之地，甚至还可能是一块巨大的日冕，用来显示时间。
Most sundial designs indicate apparent solar time. Minor design variations can measure standard and daylight saving time, as well.
绝大部分的日晷显示的都是视太阳时，有些在设计上作了变更，可以显示标准时或是日光节约时间…
The sundial works well only when the sun is shining. So, other ways were invented to measure the passing of time.
日晷只有在阳光明媚的时候才会运转很好。因此，其他测量时间流逝的方法便应运而生了。
On the North part of the church one can see a sundial, ancient inscriptions and images of different animals.
在教堂的北面有一个日晷，上面有古代文字书写的碑文和各种动物图案。
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。