Forexample,insteadoffirstchoosingafunctionandthen...Forexample,insteadoffirstchoosingafunctionandthendecidingtowhatobject(suchasaportfolio)toapplyit,theuserfirstchosetheobjectandthendecidedbetweenthedifferent

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For example, instead of first choosing a function and then ...
For example, instead of first choosing a function and then deciding to what object (such as a portfolio) to apply it, the user first chose the object and then decided between the different functions that were possible for the chosen object. At the time this was pretty different from how most business applications were navigated in the UI.
这句话我理解的很吃力.谁能帮我翻译一下啊.不翻译全部的也可以.

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作为参考吧
直译——举个例子,用户先选定一个目标（文件或文件夹）然后在针对此目标都有可能的不同功能中决定的方法,已经取代了那种用户先选择一个功能然后再决定申请哪个目标的方法.当时这种方法是明显有别于那些在用户界面上操作的大多数商务申请的.
大意就是说,那种给出选项做选择的方法已经取代了那种让用户自己去想下一步该做什么的方法,而这种做选择的方法在当时是先进的,是有别于大多数用户界面上的操作的.