1. The terms chosen to communicate the date sorting options make it unclear what users should choose if they wish to see the most recent items first in the list.
正是这些用来表达日期排序选项的术语,使得用户如果想在列表中先看到最近的项目时,无法确定应如何选择。

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2. Adding a fourth index based on acquisition date, for example, would be prohibitively difficult for the library.
在过去,如果要加上第4个“基于收录日期”的索引,那么对于图书馆来说将极其困难。

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3. The next time the user enters a date, which format should the application use?
下次用户输入一个日期,程序应该用哪种格式呢?

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4. Information in your head is much faster and easier to use than information in the world, but you are responsible for ensuring that you learn it, that you don’t forget it, and that it stays up to date.
头脑中的消息使用起来比世界中的消息要快捷和容易得多,但是你必须保证已经学过它,而且不会忘记,并且也没有过时。

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5. If the entries in this deletion buffer are headed with simple date stamps and document names, navigation would be very simple and visual.
如果已删除数据的缓冲区中的项标有简单的时间戳和文档名,导航应该会非常简单和形象化。

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6. Designers start to imagine situations like this: The user accepts the same date format 50 times in a row, and then manually enters a different format once.
设计师开始想像这样的情况:用户在一行中连续50次接受相同的日期格式,然后手工输入一次不同的格式。

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7. In an invoicing application, for example, if the software enters the date, department number, and other standard fields from memory, the invoicing clerk has fewer opportunities to make typing errors in these fields.
例如,在一个货品计价程序中,如果软件从过去的记忆中得到日期、部门编号和其他标准字段,用户在这些字段上犯输入错误的机会就会变得很少。

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8. The Web site uses a pair of drop-down menus to sort a list of search results by date.
这个网站使用成对的下拉菜单,根据时间对搜索结果进行排序。

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9. Maybe a transaction can only be completed if the termination date is extended two weeks beyond the official limit. Most companies would rather fudge on the termination date than see a million-dollar deal go up in smoke.
如果终止日期比计划期限延长两星期,某个事务才能完成,多数公司宁愿延长计划期限,也不愿看到一个上百万美元的交易化为泡影。

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10. Another example is designing a system that gets the date from the internal clock instead of asking for input from users.
另一个例子是设计从内部时钟获取数据的系统,用来取代请求用户输入。

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