Through them Mr. Jobs popularized the graphical user interface, which, based on a mouse pointing device, would become the standard way to control computers.

这期间，乔布斯的努力使得图形用户界面流行起来，基于鼠标定点装置的图形用户界面最终会成为控制计算机的标准方式。

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For example, while 'mouse' is a small furry animal in a pharmaceutical lab, it is a pointing device in a computer lab.

例如，在药物实验室“鼠”是一种小的有毛动物，而在计算机实验室中，它却是一种定位设备。

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A mouse is essentially a pointing device that allows the user to do many operations more quickly than he could with the keyboard alone.

鼠标是一个必要的外部设备，它可以使用户以比仅使用键盘快得多的速度完成许多操作。

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Another alternative to the mouse as a pointing device is to use a gaze-tracking camera, which works out where you are looking and moves an on-screen pointer accordingly.

ECONOMIST: Computer interfaces

The first was the graphical user interface, using a mouse as a pointing device, which Jobs adapted (some might say stole) from Xerox PARC and SRI to make the Macintosh.

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