Can you set up the projector?

能架起机吗？

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.

正在做一工作演讲——这是为研究生院的人准备的——正在做一工作演讲， 机坏了，就完蛋了。

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，一种更流行的展示事物的方式是使用机。

Do you know where the slide projector is?

知道机在哪吗？

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孤零零的画面，就好像我的记忆是一台机，片盒却卡住了。