1. Certainly you’d want to adjust the sizes of your weekends to reflect their relative importance in relation to your weekdays.
你肯定想调整周末栏的大小,以反映它相对于工作日的重要性。

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2. That is, a user moves the sliding thumb to indicate, by its relative position, a proportional value for use inside the program.
也就是说,用户移动滑块,通过相对位置来指示程序内的比例值。

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3. Sliders allow users to specify numeric values in relative terms, rather than by directly keying in a number.
滑块允许用户用相对值指定数值,而不是直接键入一个数字。

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4. In this dialog (an appropriately named relative of the Save As dialog), the user can move the file to any location.
在这个对话框中(和“另存为”对话框有些类似),用户能够将文档移动到其他任意的位置。

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5. A close relative of the implementation-centric interface worth mentioning is the “org-chart centric” interface.
实现为中心的界面有一个近亲值得一提,这就是“组织图为中心”的界面。

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6. The other modeless idiom is a relative newcomer on the user-interface scene but has been largely successful: namely, the toolbar.
另外一种虽然是用户界面的新来者,却取得了前所未有的成功,这便是工具栏。

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7. The meter should show the progress relative to the total time the process will consume rather than the total size of the process.
进度表应该显示相对整个过程所耗费时间的进度,而不是相对整个过程规模的进度。

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8. Where is it relative to other elements?
这个元素和其他元素是否是相关的?

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9. It’s important to contextualize them in terms of these goals and keywords, and to describe the rationale for each direction and its relative merits.
在展现过程中,要注意将设计方案根据目标和关键词来情境化,并描述每个方向的基本道理,以及它们各自的优点。 这些都很重要。

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10. Dragging an outline also is appropriate for most repositioning, as the outline can be moved relative to the source object, still visible in its original position.
当轮廓相对源对象移动时,拖动轮廓对大多数重新定位也是适合的,在原始位置仍然可以看到它。

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