magic lantern

基本解釋

Though he adored film, and had done so ever since he had swapped half his tin soldiers for his big brother's magic lantern, film-making made him “bleed too much”.
盡管他熱愛電影，小時候就曾用自己一半的錫兵跟自己的哥哥交換魔燈，但電影讓他“留了太多的血”。
According to this theory, the image was made with the aid of a magic lantern, a simple projecting device, or by means of a camera obscura and light-sensitive silver compounds applied to the cloth.
依照這個理論，這個圖像是借助于早期放映機的幫助，一種簡單的突出設(shè)備，或者利用暗箱和光敏感鍍銀混合物運用于布料上面。
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But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen.
而似乎神奇的燈失去了勇氣就連銀幕的格調(diào)也顯得懶。

He had sold engine-parts, prefabricated houses, magic-lantern projectors, socks.
ECONOMIST: Momofuku Ando

an early type of projector, a machine that shines a light through a painted or photographic image on a glass sheet to produce a larger image