Dials and sliders are idioms borrowed directly from Mechanical-Age metaphors of rotating knobs and sliding levers. 刻度盘和滑块都是直接从机械时代借用过来的习惯用法,它们分别对应旋转控制钮和滑动控制杆。
That is, a user moves the sliding thumb to indicate, by its relative position, a proportional value for use inside the program. 也就是说,用户移动滑块,通过相对位置来指示程序内的比例值。