Camera
['kæm(ə)rə] or ['kæmərə]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other).
校對:路易斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.
埃弗雷特編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a vaulted room: the judge's private chamber (In camera of a case heard there rather than in public court).—adj. Cam′erāted divided into chambers: arched or vaulted.
n. the variety of camera-obscura used by photographers.—ns. Cam′era-lū′cida an instrument by which the rays of light from an object are reflected by a specially shaped prism forming an image on the paper underneath; Cam′era-obscū′ra an instrument for throwing the images of external objects on a white surface placed within a dark chamber or box.
編輯:露西尔
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a camera, signifies that changes will bring undeserved environments. For a young woman to dream that she is taking pictures with a camera, foretells that her immediate future will have much that is displeasing and that a friend will subject her to acute disappointment.
手打:波莉
例句/造句/用法:
- Lubbock made drawings for me, with the camera lucida, of the jaws which I dissected from the workers of the several sizes. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The camera obscura consisted of a box with a lens at one end and a ground glass at the other, just like a modern camera. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Pretschi, have also successfully directed their attention to engraving the images of the camera, which has now obtained a high degree of perfection. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- It was evidently taken by a snapshot from a small camera. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- When a photographer takes a photograph of a person or a tree, he moves his camera until the image formed by the lens is of the desired size. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The screen of ground glass has a black back, and is placed in the focus of a lens in an ordinary camera obscura, wherein the image may be seen by looking down upon it. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- To lighten the camera burden, and to simplify the various photographic processes, were the problems that confronted the American inventor. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A very convenient and useful development in films is to be found in the cartridge system, by which the film may be placed in and removed from the camera in broad daylight. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Brett’s British patent No. 1,629, of 1853, appears to be the earliest description of a stereoscopic camera. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The three _colour processes_ is the name given to the new offspring of the inventors which reproduces by the camera the natural colours of objects. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- An exposure today with a modern camera, under similar conditions, could be made in 1/1000 of a second. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This, however, was finally accomplished, and in the summer of 1889 the first modern motion-picture camera was made. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Under all conditions the light is properly screened and diffused to suit the critical eye of the camera man. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The Calotype process, by which the images of the camera can be fixed upon paper, was invented by Mr. Talbot, in 1840. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Muybridge secured only one cycle of movement, because a separate camera had to be used for each photograph and consequently each cycle was reproduced over and over again. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Edward Muybridge, an Englishman, by way of experiment, placed numerous cameras at regular intervals about the track, which, by electrical contact, were snapped by the horse in passing. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In practice these views are taken by special cameras, and are printed on long transparent ribbons that contain many hundreds, and even thousands of the views. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Their lenses for telescopes and microscopes and photographic cameras, and glass and prisms, and for all chemical and other scientific work, have a worldwide reputation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The plan adopted by the best photographers is to have two cameras set at the requisite angle to each other, so that both pictures or portraits may be taken at the same time. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The manufacture of motion-picture cameras. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But finally one of their flights attracted so much attention that a score of men appeared with cameras, and the Wrights decided that it was time to stop their experiments. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Among the many other ingenious and useful hand cameras may be mentioned the Premo, made by the Rochester Optical Company, and shown in Fig. 205. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Muybridge, as we have seen, used a series of cameras, one for each plate. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- We no longer see any photographs, photo-engravings, photolithographs, or snap-shot cameras. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
整理:塞丽娜