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To right-click is to press the button on the right side of a computer mouse. That click usually opens a small menu of extra jobs: copy, paste, delete, properties, and so on. People also use it as a noun: a right-click. On a laptop you may tap with two fingers, or hold a key and click; we still call it a right-click even when there is no real right button. Though actually, the menu is not one list for the whole computer — it changes with the program and with what you are pointing at. This is everyday computer talk. It has nothing to do with being right in the sense of correct.
按滑鼠右鍵;點右鍵(台灣說「滑鼠」,大陸說「鼠標」)
組成right (the right-hand side) + click (to press a button). It names that mouse button, not a 'correct' click.
同家族的字
- left-clickthe same kind of action with the other mouse button
- double-clickclicking twice; built on the same click
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
right-clickverb
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo press the right-hand button on a computer mouse.
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo activate (an item on the screen) by right-clicking while the pointer is over it.
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資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。