"ancient Greek water clock," 1640s, from Latinized form of Greek klepsydra, from stem of kleptein "to steal, to hide" (see kleptomania) + hydor "water" (see water (n.1)).
实用例句
1. Many ancient Chinese men of letters left behind beautiful verses about the clepsydra.
作为计时器,漏刻的使用比日晷史为普遍.
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2. 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.
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3. The invention and use sundial, clepsydra and other time - measuring machines is evidence of Chinese wisdom.
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.
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4. 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.
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5. As a time - measuring apparatus , the clepsydra is used more widely than the sundial.
