1. We can see that it looks like a button, but how do we know what it will accomplish when we press it? Unlike mechanical objects, you can’t figure out a virtual lever’s function just by tracing its connections to other mechanisms—software can’t be casually inspected in this manner.
我们看到一个按钮样的东西,但如何才能知道当它被按下时能完成哪些任务? 和机械对象不同,你不能只通过跟踪虚拟的杠杆与其他机械的关系,而知道其实际功能。

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2. Just as a jet fighter needs an ejector seat lever, complex desktop applications need configuration facilities.
就像一架喷气战机需要一个弹射座椅操作杆一样,复杂的桌面程序需要设置设施。

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3. Robert leaned lightly on the lever and the rock groaned.
罗伯特把身子稍微倾斜一点压在杠杆上,岩石发出轧轧的响声。

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4. Some applications put controls on the toolbar that make the toolbar disappear! This is a completely inappropriate ejector seat lever. Other interface signposts
应该防止用户偶然触发这种改变,一些程序将引起工具栏消失的控件就放在工具栏上,这是完全不合适的弹射座椅控制杆。

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5. It was an old-fashioned lift, operated by a lever on a brass box.
这是一部老式的电梯,由一个黄铜框架上的杠杆操纵。

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6. "Keep your hands off the lever," snapped the elevator boy.
“别碰电梯开关,”开电梯的工人不客气地说。

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7. The linkage from the diaphragm to the chock-valve lever rides freely in a slot in the lever.
由膜片到阻风门摆臂的连杆可在摆臂内的槽中自由活动。

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8. At a deeper lever, it has a sexist component.
在更深一层意义上,它含有性别歧视的成分。

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9. Pressing the brake pedal in your car, for example, may conjure a mental image of pushing a lever that rubs against the wheels to slow you down.
例如,踩下汽车的刹车踏板,可能让你想到压住控制杆,以摩擦车轮来降低车速。

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10. In the cockpit of every jet fighter is a brightly painted lever that, when pulled, fires a small rocket engine underneath the pilot’s seat, blowing the pilot, still in his seat, out of the aircraft to parachute safely to earth.
每个喷气战机的座舱中都有一个眼色鲜艳的操纵杆,当拉动时就会启动一个飞行员座椅的火箭引擎将飞行员连同其座椅一起弹射出座舱,通过降落伞安全的降落在地面上。

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