Can you set up the projector?

你能架起幻灯机吗？

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.

如果你一工——这是为研究生院的人准备的——如果你一工， 而幻灯机坏了，你就完蛋了。

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

过去， 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幻灯机。

Do you know where the slide projector is?

你知道幻灯机哪吗？

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幻灯机，而片盒却卡住了。