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joystick

/joi-stik/US // ˈdʒɔɪˌstɪk //UK // (ˈdʒɔɪˌstɪk) //

操纵杆,操盘手,操控杆,操纵棒

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Informal. the control stick of an airplane, tank, or other vehicle.
    • : Computers. a lever resembling this, used to control movement of a cursor or other graphic element for video games and computer graphics.Compare mouse, stylus.
    • : any leverlike switch for controlling, manipulating, guiding, or the like.

Examples

  • Picking "classic" will let players focus entirely on selecting commands from menus, instead of giving direct joystick control to a "lead" character like Cloud or Tifa.

  • In a new study, researchers from Purdue University in Indiana, US have shown that pigs can use a digital screen and joystick, operated by their snout, to move a cursor around for rewards.

  • The animals need to understand the link between moving around a joystick and what’s happening on a computer screen, and then link what’s happening on the screen to getting a reward.

  • Alcántar followed a few paces back, holding an iPad with touch-screen controls like a joystick’s.

  • The accompanying software lets you customize the responsiveness of things like triggers and joysticks, and map button combos and commands to whatever buttons you wish.

  • All it takes is a look beyond the joystick, and local software shop, to get a glimpse at its shining promise.

  • His hand had been jerking the joystick to plus one all this time and now he became consciously aware of this.

  • For the daring and brilliant youth who held the joystick was a master-pilot, who understood every whim and fancy of his machine.

  • The pilot pushes the joystick slowly forward and prepares to land.

  • Probably he was shot dead and fell over on to the joystick, which put the machine to its last dive.

  • Some one else has produced the latest thing in connections between the pilot's joystick and the Vickers gun.