1. For example, imagine manually calculating the trajectory of a thrown baseball in order to predict where it lands.
比如,我们来想像一下我们如何计算飞行中的棒球的轨迹,从而预测出落地的地点。

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2. Electromagnetic theory was able to predict the mechanism of the reflection.
电磁理论能够推算出反射的作用过程。

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3. I predict it will outmode overnight.
我预测它会一下就过时的。

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4. If we can reliably predict what the user will do 80% of the time, it means that 20% of the time we will be wrong.
如果我们能够以80%的准确率预言用户将要做什么,也就是说还有20%的情况是错的。

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5. In terms of practicality, the ability to predict earthquakes is urgent.
就实际情况来说,如何提高地震预报的水平是非常急迫的问题。

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6. Astronomers can predict an eclipse.
天文学家们能够预测日蚀。

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7. If your application, Web site, or device could predict what a user is going to do next, couldn’t it provide a better interaction?
如果你的程序、网站或者设备能够预测用户下一步要做什么,那么它难道不能提供更好的交互吗?

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8. With significant reliability, you can predict the behavior of your users by the simple expedient of remembering what they did the last several times they used the application. This allows you to greatly reduce the number of questions your application must ask the user.
因为具有明显的可靠性,所以你可以通过简单的权宜之计,即记住用户前几次使用程序的情况来预测他的行为,这样可以让你大幅度减少程序必须向用户提问的次数。

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9. These benefits accrue because users are more readily able to predict program behavior based on past experience with other parts of the interface or with other applications following similar standards.
之所以有这些好处,是因为用户在界面的其他部分,或遵循相似标准的其他应用程序的经验基础上能更容易地预见程序行为。

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10. Well, you can predict what your users will do. You can build a sixth sense into your application that will tell it with uncanny accuracy exactly what the user will do next!
你可以预测你的用户将要做什么,你可以在程序中建立第六感,不可思议地准确地预测用户下一步将要做什么!

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