N-COUNT A coffee-table book is a large, expensive book with a lot of pictures, which is designed to be looked at rather than to be read properly, and is usually placed where people can see it easily. 茶几上用来当摆设的书
It turns out to be a sort of high-quality, unusually rigorous coffee-table book, designed to be dipped into rather than read from beginning to end.
它其实是一本高质量、异常严谨的咖啡桌书籍，写作的初衷是让读者大致浏览里面的内容，而不是从头读到尾。
We need a new coffee-table book.
我们需要一本可以摆在客厅的。
We need a new coffee-table book, and a book of photos about the United States still feels right.
我们需要一本新的茶几图书，而现在出一本美国情况的影集仍是令人感到合适的。
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