The book gives an admirably succinct account of the technology and its history.

这本书对该项技术及其历史作了极其简明的叙述。

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The preface of the book includes an account of the author's life.

该书前言记述了作者生平。

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The stipulations about the set period for honoring and entering the receipts and payment into the account book should be announced.

有关兑现、收付入帐期限的规定应当公布。

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While 91% of advisors have at least one fee-based account in their book of business, the still remaining overall high percentage of transactional business illustrates that fee-based business has a very long way to go.

FORBES: Fitting Fee-Based Business Into Your Practice

This longer version first appears in William Mares' 1968 book Marine Machine, a non-fiction account of a platoon's basic training, according to Jonathan Lighter's Historical Dictionary of American Slang.

BBC: Kentucky 'kicks ass': Taking pride in plain speaking

The documents that have been disclosed reveal that some bishops in the bankrupt dioceses presented the diocesan funds of parishes, schools, hospitals and retirement accounts as separate when they were really simply book-keeping entries in the same pooled investment account.

ECONOMIST: The Catholic church in America