But then the all-knowing timekeepers emerged, bringing peace by reorganizing the multiverse into a sacred timeline.

但随后无所不知的计员通过将多元宇宙重组为一个神圣的间线为带来和平而出现。

Early timekeepers had two choices: they could monitor the Sun or the Moon.

依靠太阳或者月亮。

It's kind of an internal timekeeper.

它有点像一个内部间记录器。

We owe all these abilities to an interconnected system of timekeepers in our brains.

我们所有这些归功于我们大脑中相互关联的计系统。

We could not ask for better timekeepers to  be dotted across space and time.

我们无法要求更好的计员分布在空间和间上。

The last timekeeper to be introduced is the fire candle clock.

最后引入的计工具是火烛钟。

" Timekeeper? " asked Mini, her eyes wide. " Wait. They can change time? "

“计员？”米妮睁大道。 “等等。他们可以改变间？”

Who they are, are actually the timekeepers and the bookkeepers of our deep-rooted traditional culture and stories.

他们是谁，其实是我们根深蒂固的传统文化和故事的计者和记账者。

The problem that no ancient timekeepers ever thought about though is how would this system work among humans living on another planet.

古代的计员从未考虑过的题是，对于生活在另一个星球上的人类，这个系统要如何运行。

The two archaeologists are anxious to confirm whether this cenote could have acted as a sacred sundial and timekeeper for the ancient Maya.

两位考古学家急切地想确认这个 cenote 是否可以作为古代玛雅人的神圣日晷和计器。

She writes in Psychology Today that those who were better at clock-checking were therefore “less reliant on their potentially flawed internal timekeeper”.

她在《今日心理学》(Psychology Today) 中写道， 那些更擅长检查钟的人因此“不太依赖他们可有缺陷的内部计员” 。

These are the timekeepers of the universe, the clocks of the cosmos, mechanistically ticking away with such certainty that we can use them to measure time across vast stretches of the universe.

它们是宇宙的计器， 宇宙的钟，机械地滴答作响， 我们可以用它们来测量宇宙广大区域的间。

It was found that the earliest ancient timekeepers were mainly invented and used in Mesopotamia, where the water clock was introduced from, as well as in North Africa, especially in the area of ancient Egypt.

发现最早的古代计器主要是在美索不达米亚发明和使用的，那里也是水钟的起源地，同也在北非， 特别是古埃及地区广泛应用。

So, now I'd like to introduce you to some of the most well-known ancient timekeepers, as well as the disadvantages of them, for which they were replaced by various new forms of clocks that were used afterwards.

因此， 现在我想向您介绍一些最为人熟知的古代计器，以及它们的不足之处，这些缺陷促使它们被后来使用的各种新型钟表所取代。