The Apple system transformed the desktop metaphor into virtual reality by allowing you to directly touch, manipulate, drag, and relocate things.

苹果的系统将桌面的概念转化为了虚拟现实，允许用户直接触摸、操作、拖拽和移动文件。

The Xerox Star extended the desktop metaphor.

Xerox Star 扩展了桌面隐喻。

In 1981, well before the Apple Lisa or Macintosh, they introduced the Xerox Star, a machine that featured their graphical user interface, mouse, bitmapped display, windows, and desktop metaphor.

在苹果的丽萨和麦金塔电脑问世之前，早在1981年，施乐就推出了他们的“施乐之星”，这台电脑上运用了图形用户界面、鼠标、位图显示、窗口以及桌面概念。

Personal computers are also ripe for innovation, perhaps shedding their forty-year old desktop metaphor and being reborn as omnipresent and lifelong virtual assistants.

个人电脑的创新时机也已成熟，或许可以摆脱其 40 年的桌面隐喻，重生为无处不在的终身虚拟助手。

Looking to make the desktop metaphor even easier and friendlier, it worked on a product called Microsoft Bob, and it took the idea of using metaphors to an extreme.

为了使桌面隐喻变得更加简单和友好，它开发了一款名为 Microsoft Bob 的产品，并将使用隐喻的想法发挥到了极致。