The book is used as a reference book.

这本书被用来做参考书。

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This book is famous as a reference book.

这是一本很有名的参考书。

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This book is famous as a reference book.

这本书作为参考书而出名。

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The book also serves as a reference tool that can inform and stimulate the current debate on the global trends that have shaped freedom of expression on the Internet.

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The blue book, a legal citation reference text, marks a person as a lawyer, just like the redweld.

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For programmers, the perfect book is a source of reference, that provides examples and acts as a stepping-stone that raises you to the next level.

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