He was now able to tell time by the position of the sun during a day.

他现在可以根据一天中太阳的位置来判断时间了。

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Since when did you just want to tell time with your watch?

什么时候开始，你的表只是为了看时间了？

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I used a TIMER when the children were too small to tell time.

在我的孩子还太小，不能认时间的时候，我用计时器来帮忙。

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And we will try to tell as much truth as possible about this interesting time in American history.

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I'm really excited every time I teach her because she listens to all the things that I tell her in the lessons.

每次教她的时候我都很兴奋，因为她在课上很用心地听我所教的一切。

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I've got to tell you that I realized fairly late in life they are more subtle than I imagined the first time.

我得告诉你们,我是很晚的时候才意识到,它其实比我之前想象的要精妙得多

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And since a candle's burn rate is fairly consistent, they were often used to tell time--some candles even had hour measurements marked into the wax.

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They were accustomed to using their phones to tell time, but here, they'd come up with an ingenious solution: they simply looked for an older person.

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The little creature's also got four additional touch sensors, a temperature sensor, a gravity sensor and an internal clock to tell the time of day, improved motors, and basic voice recognition -- and the Hong Kong packaging suggests the dinos will even come in two different sexes.

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