He has no idea what the book is about, he can't have read it very carefully.
他一点也不知道这本书是关于什么的，他一定没有仔细读过此书。
I would see it as a preface, or a table of contents, alerting the reader to what the book is about.
我倾向于把这看作一则前言，或一则目录表，用来警醒读者们真正理解这一文本。
Daniel: you can write anything about your book-what the book is about, what you think of it and so on.
丹尼尔：你可以写这本书的任何方面——这本书关于什么，你认为这本书怎么样，等等。
This will make processing the content in the target language much easier as you'll already know what the book is about!
这将使把书的内容加工成目标语言变得容易多了，因为你已经知道这本书讲什么了！
What is the use of a book about interior design without a plenitude of pictures in colour?
如果没有大量的彩色图片，一本有关室内设计的书还有什么用呢？
That's why I wrote this book, which is about how to reorganize the economy for the future when technology brings about destructive changes to what we used to consider high-income work.
这就是我写这本书的原因，这本书主要讨论的是在未来社会，当技术给我们曾经认为高收入的工作带来破坏性的变化的时候，应该如何重新规划未来的经济结构。
I'm excited to explain to the audience what my book is really about.
我很高兴能向观众解释，我的书到底写了什么。
What is most impressive about the book is the intense and painstaking effort made by the author, Elizabeth Gaskell, to convey the experience of everyday life in working-class homes.
这本书最让人印象深刻的是，作者伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔为描写工人阶级家庭的日常生活，付出了巨大的心血。
What is most impressive about the book is the intense and painstaking effort made by the author, Elizabeth Gaskell, to convey the experience of everyday life in working class homes.
这本书最让人印象深刻的是，作者伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔为描写工人阶级家庭的日常生活，付出了艰苦的努力。
I've read Heaton's other books, and he is very good at writing about bad guys, but what is he trying to tell us by letting the bad guys in this book win everything in the end?
我读过希顿的其他书，他非常擅长写坏人，但他让书中的坏人最终赢得一切，是想告诉我们什么？
To kids, this book is about what it was like to be a kid in the past.
对孩子们来说，这本书可以让他们知道过去的小孩子们是什么样的。
POSA4 is about distributed systems - what kinds of distributed systems does the book focus on?
POSA4是关于分布式系统的——该书关注哪些类型的分布式系统呢？
If you can let go of preconceived notions about what makes a good technical book, the reading is great fun.
如果你能够放开你所预想的关于一本优秀的技术书籍组成的概念，阅读是很令人愉快的。
What was particularly unusual about this book is that it claimed any reader of the book could prepare and do well on the SAT in a period of one week.
这本书的独特之处是，它对所有阅读者都声明了一件事，就是所有人都能在一周之内好好地准备这场考试，并且能考得好。
So we guess he knows what he’s talking about! Which is a good thing since here are his top tips for how to choose a wine in a restaurant from his book “Heard It Through The Grapevine”.
我们猜想他对所谈论的主题已了如指掌了，在他的书《葡萄藤的酒语》中，关于如何在餐厅选择合适的葡萄酒，他给出的建议里有哪些好的内容呢？
What I liked best about this book is that it USES an upgrade release of an established product as the main example.
这本书中我最欣赏的是，它使用已建立产品的升级版本作为主要示例。
The project blog has just put up a fascinating (to me, at least) post about the way in which they've calculated what they believe is a reasonably accurate count of every book in the world.
这个项目的博客刚刚发布了一个令人兴奋的帖子(至少对我来说)，是关于他们是如何测算他们认为比较合理准确的世界图书数目的方法的。
The best way I know to think about things is to write about them, and so in order to force me to go beyond the obvious I am writing a book about what technology means.
我认为解决问题最好的办法就是写关于它们的文章，为了迫使自己不被表象迷惑，我正在写一本关于科技意味着什么的书。
The final section in my book is a short course in what we, or at least I, don't know about complex adaptive systems and the nature of control.
本书的最后章节是个简短的课程，讲述我们，或至少是我，所不了解的复杂的自适应系统和控制的本质。
What makes this book extraordinary is that it was a book about the Aztec people, written by Aztec scribes and informants.
这本书的与众不同之处在于，它是一本关于阿芝特克人的书，由阿芝特克人提供的素材，由阿芝特克人所写。
Now that the dust has settled a little and we dig in to the trenches it gives me a chance to actually look around what this hullaballoo is all about -- the Guinness World Records 2012 book.
现在尘埃稍稍落定，名花也各自有主，我终于有时间四下回顾，想想这所有的喧嚣都是为了什么——2012年吉尼斯世界纪录出炉了。
What I like about this book the most is how simple and well organized it is.
我最喜欢这本书的地方是它很简单，结构合理。
THE title of this bright and provocative book is knowingly ambiguous; what sort of fix is it about?
这本新出版的引起广泛讨论的书有个模棱两可的题目。修正什么？
Not only is the answer an unequivocal "yes," but that's also exactly what this book is designed to give you - the insight and understanding you need about yourself and about the nature of trading.
不仅答案是绝对的“是”，而且本书就是为了告诉你这个——对自己和对交易本质的深刻认知和了解。
Go and inquire of the Lord for me and for the remnant in Israel and Judah about what is written in this book that has been found.
你们去为我，为以色列和犹大剩下的人，以这书上的话求问耶和华。
There is a discussion at the end of the book about what the correct road-building policy should be.
书的最后谈到，怎样的公路修建政策才算正确。
Go and inquire of the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah about what is written in this book that has been found.
你们去为我，为民，为犹大众人，以这书上的话求问耶和华。
It’s a famous quote that’s in my book from St. Augustine, where he says something along the lines of, “I know what time is until you ask me for a definition about it, and then I can’t give it to you.”
我的书里有一句圣奥古斯汀（St. Augustine）的名言，他说的大意是这样的，“直到你问我时间的定义，我才知道时间是什么，不过我无法给你答案。”
It’s a famous quote that’s in my book from St. Augustine, where he says something along the lines of, “I know what time is until you ask me for a definition about it, and then I can’t give it to you.”
我的书里有一句圣奥古斯汀（St. Augustine）的名言，他说的大意是这样的，“直到你问我时间的定义，我才知道时间是什么，不过我无法给你答案。”
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