1. | A water clock was another way to tell time. |
| 水钟又是一种计时的方法。 |
2. | He cannot tell time yet. |
| 他还看不懂时间。 |
3. | His son is too little to tell time. |
| 他儿子还太小不会看钟。 |
4. | It could function as a testimonial to both the owner's ability to tell time and the fact that he was on his way up the social ladder. |
| 这样的表有两种作用——证明佩戴者有能力告诉别人时间,也表明他社会地位的提高。 |
5. | It had wooden puppets to beat a drum to announce a quarter, to ring a hand-bell to mark an hour, hang out a plate to tell time every other hour and to beat a large bell to mark the watches in the night. |
| 水运仪象台的计时机械部分可以按时刻使木偶出来击鼓报刻,摇铃报时,示牌报告子、丑、寅、卯十二个时辰,击钲报更等。 |
6. | Talk about public transportation, make vacation plans, tell time and learn the days of the week. |
| 谈论公共交通工具,制定一个度假计划,说出时间和一周内每天的名称。 |
7. | Tell time; give the time |
| 看钟;报时;确知时间 |
8. | The child doesn't know how to tell time. |
| 这小孩不会看钟表缮。 |
9. | To find out how the bees manage to tell time,an unusual experiment was carried out four years ago. |
| 为了研究蜜蜂如何辨别时间,四年前进行了一项不寻常的实验。 |
10. | While inside the building they tell time by 4, 200 clocks, |
| 这座建筑里有4200个钟, |