1. Instead, we must rely either on supplementary text and images, or, most often, on our previous learning and experience.
软件用这种方法无法检测其因果关系;相反,我们必须依靠补充的文本和图片,或者更常用到的是以前的知识和体验。

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2. Ultimately, users must rely on accompanying text to make sense of these icons, unless they are used quite frequently.
用户最终还是依靠附加的文字来理解图标,除非它们经常用到。

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3. Also, we don’t want to rely on hue as the sole communication vector, since color-blindness is quite common.
还有由于存在着色盲现象,因此我们也不能依赖颜色,把它当做是唯一的传达矢量。

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4. Because we have a hard time seeing how digital products will be used, we tend to rely too much on representations from the past, Mechanical Age.
因为要经历一个艰难的时期才能看到人们如何使用数字产品,所以我们过分地倾向于依赖在机械时代的表现方式。

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5. In particular, tools that technically minded people rely on for a significant portion of their professional responsibilities should be inflected towards a high degree of proficiency.
特别地,掌握软件对于技术工作者来说,是反映其专业职责和能力的一个重要方面,他们渴望向着高的熟练程度努力。

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6. Metaphors also rely on associations perceived in similar ways by both the designer and the user.
其次,隐喻依赖于设计者与用户之间相似的联想方式。

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7. Just as in all butcon idioms, these are very efficient consumers of space, letting experienced users rely on pattern recognition to identify them and letting infrequent users rely on ToolTips to remind users of their purpose.
和所有的图标按钮习惯用法一样,它们有效地利用空间,让经验丰富的用户依靠模式识别来分辨它们,同时使用工具提示提醒临时用户它们的用途。

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8. We get no help from our instinct or intuition. We can only rely on the empirical.
我们不能从本能和直觉中获得任何帮助,只能依靠经验。

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9. Still others dispense with terminating buttons altogether and rely only upon the Close box in the title bar.
还有的干脆省略终止按钮,直接依赖标题栏的关闭框。

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10. Beginners also rely heavily upon menus to learn and execute commands (see Chapter 22 for a detailed discussion about why this is true).
新手也依赖菜单来学习和执行命令(详细的讨论见第22章),可能菜单执行起来很慢,而且沉闷。

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