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sun.dial5sQn7daIln [C]a device used outside, esp. in the past, which consists of a thin piece of metal fixed to a flat surface marked with numbers, which shows the time by the metal making a dark line on the surface as the sun moves across the sky above it日规English churchyards often have sundials in them--sometimes there is one on the church itself.英国的教堂大院里通常设置日规，有时候教堂上也有一个。"I am a sundial, and I make a botch/ Of what is done much better by a watch" (in the poem On a Sundial by Hilaire Belloc, 1938)“我是一台日规，我把手表干得好得多的活/弄得一团糟”（选自希莱尔·贝洛克的诗《在日规上》） Clocks and watches
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