1. It would not be hard for the dialog box to hunt around and find ways to help.
对于对话框来说,找到合适的帮助方法不会很困难。

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2. Software should work hard to remember our habits and, particularly, everything that we say to it.
软件应该努力记住我们的工作习惯,特别是所有我们告诉过它的事。

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3. Admittedly, the possible combinations are powerful, but they are very hard to learn, hard to remember, and hard to use.
必须承认,这些可能的组合非常有用,但是它们难学、难记又难用。

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4. It’s as though the application wants approval for how hard it worked.
看起来有点像这个应用程序在宣布它在十分努力地工作,它想得到我们的认可。

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5. Search results are almost instantaneous because the operating system takes advantage of downtime to index the hard drive.
搜索结果几乎是同时出现的,因为系统利用了很多空闲时间来索引硬盘。

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6. They can be hard for newcomers to interpret, but then, they’re not for newcomers.
对于新手用户,它们可能难以理解,因其不是为新手准备的。

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7. How many users have seen what a naked hard drive looks like (far right)?
有多少用户见过裸露的硬盘驱动器是什么样子(最右边)?

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8. With our Mechanical-Age mindset, we have a hard time seeing appropriate Information-Age representations—at first.
以我们机械时代的观念体系,一开始我们需要经历一个艰难的时期才能找到合适的信息时代表现方式。

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9. Programmers work hard to keep the number of instructions to a minimum, ensuring snappy performance for users.
程序员辛苦工作来保证指令数量的最小化,保证为用户提供精力充沛的表现。

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10. In the lower-left corner, the application tells us the number of free bytes and the total number of bytes on the disk. These numbers are hard to read and hard to interpret.
在左下角,应用程序告诉我们剩余空间的字节数和硬盘上总的空间大小,这些数字难以阅读和解释。

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