sundial

英 [ˈsʌndaɪəl]

美 [ˈsʌndaɪəl]

n.  日晷

复数：sundials　

TOEFLIELTSTEM8

BNC.22299 / COCA.26138

牛津词典

noun

• 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.

柯林斯词典

• 日晷
  Asundialis a device used for telling the time when the sun is shining. The shadow of an upright rod falls onto a flat surface that is marked with the hours, and points to the correct hour.

英英释义

noun

• timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• Lay your shadows over the sundial.
  把你的影子投放在日规上。
• By the sundial the solar term can be known too.
  该日晷还能确定当时所处的节气。
• 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。
• The structure, reading set and observing methods of the instruments for time measuring and keeping, such as gnomon, sundial, armillary sphere and clepsydra in Song dynasty, have been analysed and their observation errors have been obtained.
  对我国宋代测时设备圭表、日晷、浑仪和守时设备漏壶，从它们的结构，读数装置、观测方法等分析其观测误差。
• Figure Design of General Sundial Surface
  常用日晷晷面线图设计
• The invention and use of the gnomon-and-ruler, sundial, clepsydra and other time-measuring machines is evidence of Chinese wisdom.
  圭表、日晷、漏刻等计时仪器的发明和应用，证明中华民族是个充满智慧的民族。
• 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。
• Or your favourite book beside the sundial.
  或是在日落留下一本你最喜欢的书。