1. A human assistant knows that you will require a hotel room when you travel to another city, even when you don’t ask explicitly.
当你在另一个城市旅行,甚至在你并没有明确要求时,导游就知道你需要一个旅馆房间。

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2. Child windows containing documents should always be maximized inside the application unless the user explicitly instructs otherwise, or the user needs to simultaneously work in several documents to accomplish a specific task.
程序内部包含文档的子窗口应该始终最大化;除非用户有明显的其他要求,或者用户为了完成某项任务,需要同时在几个文档上进行工作。

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3. While it’s not the most common of tasks, we certainly want to allow a user to discard all the changes she has made after opening or creating a document, so this action should be explicitly supported.
使用者有可能在创建或者编辑过某个文档后想放弃所做的修改,这可能不是最常见的操作,但是我们还是应该明确支持这种行为。

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4. Products should also watch our preferences and remember them without being asked explicitly to do so.
软件也应该观察我们的偏好,并且自觉地记住它们。

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5. While an attribute-based retrieval system can find documents for users without users ever having to explicitly organize documents in advance, there is also considerable value in allowing users to tag or manually specify attributes about documents.
使用者无须事先将文件组织起来,就可以利用基于属性的检索系统来查找文件。 这时如果用户可以为文档设置标签或者手工指定属性,这无疑也是非常有价值的。

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6. He should be able to explicitly specify that a given e-mail message pertains to a specific value, whether or not that value is quoted verbatim in the message.
他可以显式地指定与特定值相关的特定电子邮件信息,无论这个值是否是从消息中按字面引用的。

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7. The biggest difference between versioning and other Undo systems is that the user must explicitly request the version—recording a copy or snapshot of the document.
历史版本和其他撤销系统之间的主要差别在于用户必须显式地调用历史版本,记录一个复制或者文档的快照。

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8. It is better to make a user ask explicitly for configuration one time in ten than it is to make a user reject the configuration interface nine times in ten.
因此最好使用户在10次中的一次清楚地请求设置,而不是10次中有9次用户拒绝设置界面。

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9. If you wanted to change an item, such as your address, first you explicitly had to ask the application permission to change it.
如果想改变一个项目,例如你的地址,你必须先获得程序的允许,然后才能改变。

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10. Just as in a courtroom, where lawyers can, by virtue of their authority, bias witnesses by suggesting answers to them, designers can inadvertently bias interview subjects by implicitly (or explicitly) suggesting solutions or opinions about behaviors.
就像在法庭上一样,律师能够凭借其权威性,通过向证人建议答案来使他们产生偏见。 这里设计师也能够通过隐含(或者显式)地建议有关行为的解决方法和观点,无意识地使访谈对象产生偏见。

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