1. Directly manipulating a steering wheel is not only a more appropriate idiom for communicating with your car, but it also puts you in the superior position, directing your car where it should go.
直接操作汽车方向盘不仅是最合适的习惯用法,它也让用户感觉自己处于优越的位置,引导自己的汽车去目的地。

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2. One of the most useful innovations in pointing devices is the scroll wheel.
点操作设备上最有用的发明之一是滚轮,滚轮有多种,外形略有差异。

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3. This can be a challenge, given the spatial limitations of the automobile dashboard, center console, and steering wheel.
在仪表盘、中心控制台和方向盘等空间相对有限的情况下,这是一个挑战。

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4. Camera rotate and zoom functions are cleverly mapped to the mouse scroll wheel, allowing fluid access while using other tools.
摄像机旋转和缩放功能巧妙地映射到鼠标的滚动轮上,这样在使用其他工具时可以方便地使用这些功能。

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5. Rolling the wheel forward scrolls the window up, and rolling it backwards scrolls the window down.
向前滚动滚轮,屏幕上卷;向后滚动,屏幕下卷。

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6. Onscreen thumbwheels look rather like the scroll wheel on a mouse, and behave in much the same way.
屏幕上的拇指轮看上去就像鼠标上的滚动轮,行为也非常相似,并普遍用在某些三维程序中。

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7. This is also the place in the process where design principles and patterns begin to become a useful way to arrive at effective solutions without reinventing the wheel.
在设计过程中的这个阶段,设计原则和模式开始成为有效解决方案的正确之路,而无须重新造车。

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8. The fantastic thing about the scroll wheel is it allows users to avoid dealing with the challenges of interacting with scrollbars (see Figure 19-1).
滚轮的妙处在于使用者无须费力和难用的滚动条打交道(参见图19-1)。

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9. Patterns and principles are useful because they help us avoid wasted effort of continually examining first assumptions and reinventing the wheel.
此外,还有模式和原则,它们也很有用,可以让我们不必在已经熟知的内容上浪费时间和精力。

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10. Commonly used navigation controls (e.g., play/pause, mute, skip/scan) should be available on the steering wheel (driver use) as well as on the center console (passenger use).
常用的导航控制(例如播放、暂停、静音、跳过及扫描等)应该直接放在方向盘(供驾驶员使用),以及中心控制台上(供乘客使用)。

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