'What papers? What sundial? ' he asked.

'文件？日晷仪？'又问道。

The sundial, he was banished in a sundial.

日晷，被关在日晷里了？

The sundial in the center is a Dutch design.

中心的日晷是荷兰的设计。

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。

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

日晷可以自动做到这一点！但它们也有其的缺陷。

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

'把文件放在日晷仪上，'我从肩膀背望着信封念道。'

Get that sundial and we can control time with ease.

拿到日晷，然我们就可以轻松控制时间。

'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.

来出现了更确的计时方法，比如日晷、机械钟，让计时变得更方便。

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。

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比，可能会提前16分钟，或是推迟14分钟。

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。

The princess looked at the sundial.

公主看着日晷。

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

在那里们发现了一圈绿色的草坪，中央有一个日晷。

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

在古代，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。

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。

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在差异。

Today, we can see sundials in parks and city squares.

如今，我们可以在公园和城市广场看到日晷。