He"s not just passing light through a prism — he"s resynthesizing it.

他不仅仅是让光线通过棱镜-- 他还重新合成了它。

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To produce a photographic image from (a negative, for example) by passing light through film onto a photosensitive surface, especially sensitized paper.

翻印通过使光线穿过胶片投射到感光板，尤指感光照相纸上，从而晒制出。

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A spectrum is formed by a ray of light passing through a prism.

一束光通过棱镜就会形成光谱。

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It's like passing on light.

就像传递光明。

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By passing light from the palimpsest through a filter made up of liquid crystals, the researchers can adjust the wavelengths of the pictures that result by 10 billionths of a metre at a time.

ECONOMIST: The Archimedes palimpsest

The more that the light passing through the sample is slowed down, however, the more the two beams will be out of phase.

ECONOMIST: Microscopy

Light passing through each microlens focuses at a point a few tenths of a millimetre beyond it, and thereafter spreads out as a cone.

ECONOMIST: Quantum computers