Modern book editions are complicated and various, but the rules of book description are backward.

现代图书版本类型复杂多样，而著录规则滞后。

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A writer wrote down all the stories that Marco told him in a book called The Description of the World, which became one of the best selling books in Europe.

一位作家把马可告诉他的所有故事都写在了一本叫做《世界描述》的书里，这本书成了欧洲最畅销的书之一。

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The style used by the authors in this reference book (for lack of a better description) greatly increases the clarity of the book itself.

这本参考书的作者们采用的行文风格（因为缺乏更好的描述）使得它更加通俗易懂。

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Please do bring them, and I will also be passing around Tony the Tow Truck and I'll give you a brief description of what the little children's book actually looks like, and then we will plunge in to the question "What is an author?"

请大家把它们带来，下节课，我会发给大家《托尼的拖车》,然后简要介绍一下,这本儿童读物，然后我们会直接讨论,作者是什么，这个问题“

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I think the book has a fairly good description of it so if you don't pick up everything in the lecture, hopefully you've read that beforehand, and you can go back to it afterwards and read about things that didn't make sense.

我认为课本对DNA表述很详细,所以在课堂上无需面面俱到,希望你们之前做过预习,课后你们可以通过复习,弄懂那些不甚理解的地方

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But the book description sounds intriguing and it sounds like a fun adventure.

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The book ends with a description of the sexagenarian Sewall's courtings after his wife's death.

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