Do you know where the slide projector is?

灯机在哪吗？

When I picture her now I conjure a single image, as if my memory is a slide projector and the tray is stuck.

现在想象她的样子，我的脑海里浮现出一个孤零零的画面，就好像我的记忆是一台灯机，而片盒却卡住了。

In the old days, back before we had computers, one of the more popular ways to show things was to have a slide projector.

在过去， 在我们拥有计算机之前，一种更行的展示事物的方式是使用灯机。

Each lecture room is equipped with film and slide projectors and screen, a closed-circuit TV, a tape-recorder wired to central speakers and an overhead projector.

每个教室都配备了电影和灯片放映机和屏幕、闭路电视、连接到中央扬声器的录音机和高架投影仪。

If you were giving a job talk--and this is for people in graduate school particularly--If you were giving a job talk and the slide projector breaks, you're screwed.

如在做一个工作演讲——这是为研究生院的人准备的——如在做一个工作演讲， 而灯机坏了，就完蛋了。

Washing machines, garbage disposals, lawnmowers, furnaces, TV sets, tape recorders, slide projectors, all are in league with the automobile to take their turn at breaking down whenever life threatens to flow smoothly for their enemies.

洗衣机、垃圾处理机、割草机、熔炉、电视机、录音机、灯片放映机，所有这些都与汽车结盟，每当敌人的生命受到威胁时，它们就会轮出故障。