by the book

基本解釋

He professes himself surprised by the book's success.
他承認(rèn)，他對(duì)這本書的成功也感到意外。
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This is the book [which] Newton's calculus was introduced [by the book] into China.
③正是通過(guò)這本書，使牛頓的微積分介紹到中國(guó)來(lái)。
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This reviewer remembers being so absorbed by the book when it first came out in 1981 that she forgot to get off the tube and ended up at the end of the Piccadilly line in the far north-east of London.
有一位評(píng)論家還記得在1981，也就是這本書剛剛出版的時(shí)候，她被這本書深深的迷住了，以致于她都忘了下地鐵，一直順著皮卡迪利線坐到了位于倫敦東北邊終點(diǎn)站。

Ms.Adams says the name of the festival was influenced by the book "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found" by Suketu Mehta.
When we started with the entire class, I showed the children how to bind the book by hand.
這門課最開(kāi)始的時(shí)候，我向孩子們展示了如何把書用繩子縫起來(lái)。
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The book has to be tested. It has to be tried by the public, by a reading public, before it can be censored.
這本書必須檢測(cè)，它必須被大眾檢測(cè)，在它被控制之前。
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But the path she took to fulfill that dream hasn't been by the book.
NPR: Simone Dinnerstein: Variations on a Career