background information on something or someone; basic facts in order to get a take (probably from “glossary”, the part of a book which lists sources of information)

继而，接下来的用户添加了gloss一词与gloosary相关的意思，我们由此得到了urbandictionary对该词的解释，即：与某事物或某人相关的背景知识；为了有所了解而给出的基本事实（很可能来自glossary一词的解释，即给出参考信息出处的书籍部分）。

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A new book* by a pair of academics from America's Johns Hopkins University finds lots of facts to cheer Europeans up.

美国约翰霍普金大学的两位学者出版了一本新书，列举了许多事实来让振奋欧洲人。

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In their book, "Secrets of the Lost Symbol: the Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind the Da Vinci code Sequel," they uncover anagrams and coded phrases and a host of other curious facts.

在他们的书“消失的符号之谜：通往达芬奇密码后未解之谜的向导，”中，他们解开了字谜，编码词组和许多其他奇怪真相。

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Packed with data from dozens of academic studies, this book shows the hard facts about the failure of active management and the fund companies who profit from it despite the chronic underperformance.

FORBES: Passive Investing Beats the Markets

It is one of the merits of this book that it lets the facts speak for themselves.

ECONOMIST: Crime and policing

In fact, the first third of the book might as well be an annotated resume for Poizner, a recitation of facts with little or no real feeling, color or introspection.

FORBES: Poizner's Poser Prose