apparent time

中文含义：表时（太阳时），指太阳真实位置在观测地面上所显示的时间，以午夜为起点，每过一天24小时。

英语词性：noun

美式发音：/əˈpærənt taɪm/

同义词：solar time

易混淆单词：mean time（平均时），指以地球自转平均速度为基础，把一年分成365.24份来计算的时刻。

例句：

1. In apparent time, the sun lags behind the clock by about four minutes in February and by about 16 minutes in November.

2. Without apparent time, we would not have seasons, and it would be impossible to know when to plant crops.

双语例句：

1. In the Italian Renaissance, astronomers first noticed that the time shown by clocks tended to differ from the time shown by sundials, which marked apparent time by the position of the sun in the sky.

在意大利文艺复兴时期，天文学家首次注意到时钟所显示的时间往往与太阳表所显示的时间有所差异，太阳表是以太阳在天空中的位置来标记表时的。

2. The equation of time is the difference between the apparent time indicated by a sundial and the mean solar time indicated by a clock or watch.

时间差（equation of time）是指日晷所标示的表时和时钟或手表所标示的平均太阳时之间的差异。