by the book

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He professes himself surprised by the book's success.
他承认，他对这本书的成功也感到意外。
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This is the book [which] Newton's calculus was introduced [by the book] into China.
③正是通过这本书，使牛顿的微积分介绍到中国来。
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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.
有一位评论家还记得在1981，也就是这本书刚刚出版的时候，她被这本书深深的迷住了，以致于她都忘了下地铁，一直顺着皮卡迪利线坐到了位于伦敦东北边终点站。

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.
这门课最开始的时候，我向孩子们展示了如何把书用绳子缝起来。
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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.
这本书必须检测，它必须被大众检测，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