Can sand flow upward in the hour glass?

时光会倒流吗？

Tom drew an hour–glass with a full moon and straw limbs to it and armed the spreading fingers with a portentous fan.

汤姆画了一个带有满月和稻草四肢的沙漏， 并用一把不祥的扇子武装张开的手指。

A few grains of sand were to run through the hour glass before the Whig party was to be broken and scattered as the Federalists had been more than a generation before.

在辉格党被打破和分散之前，几粒沙子会穿过沙漏，因为联邦党人已经超过一代人了。