Metaphors

It may be easy to discover visual metaphors for physical objects like printers and documents.

也许寻找物理对象,如打印机和文档这样的视觉隐喻不是件难事.

The idea that metaphors are a firm foundation for user-interface design is misleading.

隐喻是用户界面设计的坚实基础,这种观念是一种误导.

For further discussion of the pitfalls surrounding reliance on metaphors in user interfaces, see Chapter 13.

更多关于围绕着在用户面上依赖于类比的问题的讨论, 我们放在第13章中.

I can only represent it to you by metaphors.

我只能用隐喻来向你描述它.

Metaphors have many limitations when applied to modern, information-age systems.

当应用到信息时代的系统中时,隐喻存在很多局限性.

The essays are well-arranged and enriched by biblical allusions, metaphors and cadence.

这些散文不仅结构巧妙还大量使用了《圣经》的典故, 隐喻和基调.

Yet, we still use the same old metaphors and retrieval models to manage our data.

但是, 我们仍然使用相同的隐喻和检索模型管理我们的数据.

Strict adherence to metaphors ties interfaces unnecessarily to the workings of the physical world.

刻意遵照隐喻会将界面和物理世界的事物不必要地绑在一起.

Try to illustrate as many metaphors and icon concepts as possible.

尝试说明许多隐喻和图标的概念成为可能.

We understand metaphors intuitively, but what does that really mean?

我们凭直觉理解隐喻, 但直觉真正的意思是什么?

He got confused among the metaphors.

这些比喻把他搞糊涂了.

To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings.

混用更多的隐喻来说，你还没学会走就想跑，而我又剪掉了你的翅膀。

Don't use lame metaphors; software is neither art nor brick building.

别用蹩脚的比喻; 软件即不是艺术,也不是砖墙.

Thus, She's an angel and He's a lion in battle are metaphors.

因此她是天使,他是雄狮都是比喻说法.

These two metaphors are mismached.

这两个比喻放在一起很不相配.