漏壶

This method of measuring time through clepsydra was still not accurate.

这种漏壶计时的准确性仍然比较差。

"Water clock : or clepsydra , Ancient device for measuring time by the gradual flow of water."

水钟，亦称漏壶，利用水的流动计时的古代时钟。

The more levels the clepsydra has, the more accurate it is to measure time.

漏壶的级数越多，计时就越准确。

As the clepsydra was passed on from generation to generation, it gradually evolved into a set of four pots.

漏壶历代相传，由单只逐渐发展成为后来四只一套的漏壶。

Now, the four-level clepsydra of the Yuan (1271-1368 AD) and Qing (1644-1911 AD) dynasties are preserved respectively in the Museum of Chinese History and the Palace Museum in Beijing.

现在，在北京的中国历史博物馆和故宫博物院里还分别保存著元代和清代的四级漏壶，供人们参观。

Galileo used a mercury clepsydra to time his experimental falling bodies.

直到16世纪时，迦利略还用水银漏壶为其自由落体实验计时。

The Romans invent ed a clepsydra consisting of a cylinder into which water dripped from a reservoir; a float provided readings against a scale on the cylinder wall.

罗马人发明的一种漏壶则是让水从蓄水器滴入一圆筒，筒内有一浮子，在筒壁的刻度尺上指示读数。

The earliest clepsydra was a copper pot holding water with a small opening at the bottom and a pole with scales standing in the center. When the water dropped through the small hole, people determined time by the scale on the pole as the water level decreased.

最早的漏壶用一只铜壶盛水，壶底有一个小洞，壶中插一根刻有刻度的标杆，水从小洞滴出后，人们根据水位降低后标杆上的刻度来判断时间。

The copper clepsydra was also called a water clock, hourglass, and sandglass.

铜壶滴漏又叫"漏刻"、"刻漏"、"壶漏"、"漏壶"。

The Qian Zhang water clock of Western Han is the biggest one in volume in the history of China.

西汉千章铜漏是一件有明确纪年、保存完好、容量很大的泄水型沉箭式漏壶。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失