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。
At a hefty two kilos and 420 pages, the oversized coffee-table book was published annually by the Asahi newspaper between 1954 and 1971.
在1954年到1971年间，朝日报纸每年出版一期这种重达两公斤共有420页的加大版装饰画册。
The firm reckons customers will increasingly use them for ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee-table tome—anything, that is, except books that are actually read.
该公司认为，越来越多的消费者会用这种书柜来摆放装饰品，小摆设，和一些精美的画册等等，除了真正用来阅读的书。
He sprang to his feet, grabbing his keys off the coffee table.
他跳了起来，从咖啡桌上抓起他的钥匙。
He extracted several glossy prints and spread them out on a low coffee table.
他抽出几张光面照片铺在一张矮咖啡桌上。
She put the bottle on the coffee table beside him, banging it down hard. He started at the sound, his concentration broken.
她把那个瓶子砰地一声放在他身边的咖啡桌上，他被这声音吓了一跳，注意力被打断了。
He got up slowly and hobbled over to the coffee table.
他慢慢地起身，一瘸一拐地走到咖啡桌边。
The coffee table is glass, to be as unobtrusive as possible.
咖啡茶几是玻璃制的，尽可能地不引人注目。
She fell against our coffee table and got a large bump on her forehead.
她撞到了我们的咖啡桌跌倒了，前额起了一个大包。
I still remember how long it took to polish the legs of our coffee table.
我依然记得擦亮我们的咖啡桌子腿儿要花多长时间。
“This isn’t for me,” she said, sliding the whole mess over to my end of the coffee table.
“这不是给我的，”她说，边说边把这乱糟糟的一大摊东西从咖啡桌上推到我的面前。
While he's talking to his grandmother, his friend starts eating the peanuts on the coffee table, and finishes them off.
当他和祖母说话时，他的朋友开始吃咖啡桌上的花生，并把它们全部吃光了。
Golden Adele, in paperweight form, lay on the coffee table and was rubbed hard for luck.
咖啡桌上放着做成镇纸石的“金色阿黛勒”，为求诉讼顺利，它被精心抚拭。
If certain publications you're subscribed to remain unread and are simply cluttering up the coffee table, it's time to cancel.
如果你订了某些出版物，却一直没有阅读过，而且仅仅成为了你咖啡桌上碍地方的杂物，是时候把它们取消掉了。
I lost my balance and hit my head on the corner of my coffee table and then on the floor.
我失去了平衡并且头撞到了我的咖啡桌的桌角，然后头撞到地板上。
Keep a pad and pen next to your nightstand, next to your coffee pot, in your bathroom, on your kitchen counter, and on your coffee table.
在你的床头柜上、咖啡壶边上、卫生间里、厨房桌子上和你的咖啡桌上都放上记事簿和笔。
Never toss something on a countertop, table, desktop, bed, dresser top, coffee table, or the floor.
不要在台面、桌子、办公桌、床、抽屉、咖啡桌或者地板上乱放东西。
Another seven or eight cartoonists were squeezed into the small waiting room, which is dominated by a long coffee table stacked with hundreds of New Yorker magazines.
七八个漫画家接踵而至。这个小小的接待室里，布置了一张咖啡长桌，上面堆满了上百本的《纽约客》。
Sitting on a coffee table, between an outsized chocolate mobile phone and an electric kettle molded from chocolate, is what looks like an ordinary bar of chocolate.
坐在一张咖啡桌旁，一边是一只大号的巧克力制成的移动电话，一边是一只巧克力制成的电水壶，这里看起来与寻常的巧克力吧并无不同。
咖啡桌够劲儿吧！
In the living room hesaw mismatched furniture arranged around a wicker coffee table.
客厅中间是一张柳木咖啡桌，周围摆放着一些不配套的家具。
Image above: We love fruit! The coffee table was my grandma's.
上图：我们喜欢水果。咖啡桌是我祖母的。
A couch that converts into a bed is perfect for visiting guests. A coffee table can also serve as a desk or dining surface in a pinch.
如长沙发椅可以作为客人的床使用，咖啡桌在必要时也可以充当书桌或饭桌。
She wondered if she might stack her books and turn them into legs for a coffee table.
她很好奇自己可能把书籍堆起来垫她的咖啡桌。
这张咖啡台太差劲了。
The coffee table was my grandma’s.
咖啡桌是我祖母的。
In the redecorated Oval Office, two plump mustard corduroy sofas take pride of place, facing a boxy, modern coffee table covered with marble-looking tiles.
在这件重新装修的办公室内，两个大型黄褐色灯芯绒沙发占据了大部分空间，对面是貌似用大理石覆盖而成的四四方方但不失新潮的咖啡桌。
Nick drops another box full of paper onto the coffee table of his apartment.
Nick将另一个装满文件的盒子放在他公寓的咖啡桌上。
When he returned home from a long day at the office, Jeremy Brosowsky would glance ruefully at his coffee table.
熬过漫长的一天，当Jeremy Brosowsky离开办公室准备返回家中的时候，他会悲戚地看一眼自己的咖啡桌。
When he returned home from a long day at the office, Jeremy Brosowsky would glance ruefully at his coffee table.
熬过漫长的一天，当Jeremy Brosowsky离开办公室准备返回家中的时候，他会悲戚地看一眼自己的咖啡桌。
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