但是如果要把一个程序的界面和对话框都进行本地化,翻译们可能需要造一些新词,因为有的概念可能在别的语言里根本不存在。
To localize the interface and dialogs of a program, translators may need to create new words for concepts that don't otherwise exist in the language.
开发人员不必面对上千种不同的机器,只需针对Windows写一次程序,就可以在每一台个人电脑上运行,不管是谁造的。
Instead of writing a program for thousands of different machines, developers could write it once for Windows and have it run on every PC, no matter who built it.
这就像是我们造了一架一级方程序赛车却感到浑身不自在,仅仅因为它和汽车应该的摸样相差太远。
It was as if we'd created a Formula 1 car but felt sheepish because it didn't look like a car was supposed to look.
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