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font: English has two words font. The older, ‘basin for baptismal water’ [OE], comes from font-, the stem of Latin fons ‘spring, fountain’ (from which English also gets fountain). It may well have been introduced into the language via Old Irish fant or font (it was often spelled fant in Old English). Font ‘set of type’ [16] (or fount, as it is often also spelled) was borrowed from French fonte, a derivative of fondre ‘melt’ (whence also English fondant, fondu, and foundry).=> fountain; fondant, foundry

font (n.1)

"water basin," especially used in baptism, late Old English, from Latin fons (genitive fontis) "fountain" (see fountain), especially in Medieval Latin fons baptismalis "baptismal font." The word is sometimes used poetically for "a fountain; a source."

font (n.2)

"complete set of characters of a particular face and size of type," 1680s (also fount), earlier "a casting" (1570s), from Middle French fonte "a casting," noun use of fem. past participle of fondre "to melt" (see found (v.2)). So called because all the letters in a given set were cast at the same time.

1. The text edit control, with its familiar system font and visually articulated white box, encourages data entry.

文本编辑控件因其熟悉的系统字体和视觉上清晰可见的空白框，给人以可以输入数据的强烈印象。

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2. He took the cover off the font, and put his white gloves in it.

他揭开圣水器的盖子，把自己的白手套放了进去。

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3. There was a beautiful stone font there.

那有一个精美的石制洗礼盘。

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4. the name given at the font

洗礼名,本名

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5. It is perfectly natural that these selectors be on the toolbar. They offer the same functionality as those on the drop-down menu, but they also show the current style, font, and font size as a property of the current selection.

这些选择控件落户工具栏是极其自然的，它们和下拉菜单提供相同的功能。 而且还显示了当前选择的属性，即当前样式、字体和字号。

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6. If some other user just wants to print plain old documents in one column and one font, no amount of inducement will get him to learn those more advanced formatting features.

如果其他用户只想用单个分栏和一种字体来打印简单的旧式文档，他们就没有学习这些高级格式的动机。

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7. Generally speaking, users select items in a list control as input to some function, such as selecting the name of a desired font from a list of several available fonts.

总的说来，用户选择列表控件中的项目就像为某个功能提供输入，比如从数种可选字体列表中选择希望的那种字体名。

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8. Adding in a factor of how recently files were accessed, as well, would get closer but still wouldn’t be exactly right. (Microsoft does this with its font picker in some applications, and it works pretty well for this purpose.)

把最近使用的文件这个因素考虑进去，结果会更接近一些，但仍然不会完全正确（微软在一些应用程序中用这种方式处理字体的选择，就这个目的而言，它做得不错）。

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9. To do this, you select some text and change the font color to white.

为了做到这点，你选择一些文本并将字体的颜色改成白色。

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10. Typically, an edit field is used to enter a numeric value needed by the program, such as the point size of a font.

通常编辑字段用于输入程序所需的数值，如字号磅数。

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