A book like this is long overdue.

像这样的书早就该有人出版了。

《牛津词典》

I settled down with a book.

我手拿一本书，舒舒服服地坐下。

《牛津词典》

This was the germ of a book.

这是一本书的创作萌芽。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

"(It comes) from a comic book that has had three lives and wasn't necessarily successful, but I love the idea that it refused to die.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

The owner of a copyrighted object (a book, for example) controls that new product before it is first distributed (to a consumer, bookstore, library, Amazon etc.).

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All of a sudden, I wrote a book (called Hulk: My Life Outside The Ring), and told people what I was going through and how I kind of bottomed out with the divorce.

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Years later he was there to do a signing himself, after writing Everything (A Book About Manic Street Preachers).

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