1. A transient application should launch to its previous position and configuration.
运行暂时应用时,它应该处于上一次的位置和配置状态下。

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2. Likewise, clicking on the e-mail address in the address book could launch the mail application.
同样,当单击这个人的电子邮件地址时,就可以自动地调用电子邮件程序。

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3. Rather than asking the application to launch a dialog, a user tells a dialog to go away and not come back again.
与其让程序发起对话框,不如用户停止对话框,并且让对话框不再出现。

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4. During the launch phase, it would ride in a protective aluminum shell.
在发射阶段,它盛在一只保护的铝壳里。

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5. With windowing systems, they must open various folders to find the desired file or application before they can launch it.
对于视窗系统,为了查找期望的文件或者程序,在启动之前必须打开多个文件夹。

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6. Beginners are out of luck, but experienced users learn the hard way that they can close the document, launch Windows Explorer, rename the file, return to the application, summon the Open dialog from the File menu, and reopen the document.
新手用户没有那么走运,而有经验的用户知道可以关闭文档。 打开资源管理器重新命名文件,然后返回应用程序,从文件菜单中调用打开对话框重新打开文档。

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7. User testing at Microsoft showed that a typical user might launch the same word processor several times in the mistaken belief that he has somehow “lost” the program and must start over.
微软的用户测试显示,一个典型的用户可能会多次运行同一个文字处理器。 因为他误认为程序已经“丢失”,必须重新开始。

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8. If we always maximize an application to use the entire available screen, the application should get the idea after a few sessions and always launch in that configuration.
如果我们总是最大化一个应用程序的屏幕窗口,程序在几次之后就应该知道以这种设置启动。

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9. The application can launch a search for a file, and if the user begins typing, merely abandon it until the next hiatus.
程序可以启动查找文件,如果用户开始输入,程序可以放弃,直到下一次空闲时钟周期。

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10. The dialog boxes that the menu items launch (if they do so at all) should also be (tersely) explanatory, and come with convenient Cancel buttons.
菜单项发起的对话框(如果它们那么做)应该是解释性的(简洁和精练),并且有方便的“取消”按钮。

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