日晷的对应物是水钟，用来测量夜间的时间。
The sundial's counterpart, the water clock, was designed to measure temporal hours at night.
为了在白天追踪时间，发明家发明了日晷，它通过太阳阴影的长度或方向来指示时间。
In order to track temporal hours during the day, inventors created sundials, which indicate time by the length or direction of the sun's shadow.
日晷在晚上或阴天不起作用！
在阴天或晚上，无法用太阳钟或日晷看出时间。
On cloudy days or at night it was impossible to tell the time with a sun clock or a sundial.
随着时间的推移，中国人第一次使用日晷代替影子表杆。
Over time, the Chinese first used sundials instead of shadow sticks.
一旦被人所知，它就迅速传播开来，替代了水钟，但却没有替代日晷，日晷被用来将新机器与原来的计时方法进行对照检查。
Once known, it spread rapidly, driving out water clocks but not solar dials, which were needed to check the new machines against the timekeeper of last resort.
日晷的近景，它走时非常精确。
A close up of the sundial which is very accurate, by the way.
最早的日晷是在古埃及发现的。
And it was in ancient Egypt that the first recorded 2 sundials were found.
日晷上显示的时间非常精确。
该日晷还能确定当时所处的节气。
在日晷时间在某些时候的一年。
像个巨大的日晷，它划分了时空。
方向时，你把你的日晷到位。
这些圆圈被叫做“日晷”。
这是因为台北101是全球最大的日晷。
大牛，你还知道日晷哪？
日晷是已知的最古老的一种测算时间的装置。
The sundial is the oldest known device for the measurement of time.
我喜欢日晷。只要没有阳光，它就把时间不算。
I like the sundial. As long as no sunshine, it's not your time.
日晷不仅能告诉我们时间还提醒我们宇宙的存在。
The sundial tells us not only time but also existence of cosmos.
与日晷桥一样，女人桥采用的也是斜拉桥设计方案。
The Puente de la Mujer, like the Sundial Bridge, is a cantilever spar cable-stayed design.
日晷仪一种物体，用它的影子作指示器，如日晷仪。
An object, such as the style of a sundial, that projects a shadow used as an indicator.
后来，为了长久使用，人们用石头和金属做成了日晷。
在闲聊历史的时候，他甚至宣称他的一个祖先发明了日晷！
While chatting about history, he even tried to claim that an ancestor of his invented the sundial!
除了必须要有阳光外，一台精准的日晷还需要根据纬度和季节来作校准。
To be accurate, beyond needing a sunny day, sundials must be corrected based on latitude and time of year.
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。
On the North part of the church one can see a sundial, ancient inscriptions and images of different animals.
从上面看，投在沙滩上的阴影创造了像日晷一般的移动模式。
Seen from above, the shadows cast onto the sand created shifting patterns like sundials.
从上面看，投在沙滩上的阴影创造了像日晷一般的移动模式。
Seen from above, the shadows cast onto the sand created shifting patterns like sundials.
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