coffee-table book

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We need a new coffee-table book.
我们需要一本可以摆在客厅的。
On the coffee table sat a copy of an earlier best-selling book I wrote.
在咖啡桌旁放着她带来的我写的第一本畅销书。
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Advertising in books - the tangible things that you put on your shelf or leave on your coffee table - seems weird. But e-books aren't a possession. You can't lend an e-book to a friend.
书里面的广告是有形的，你会把他放在书架上或放在咖啡桌上，这听起来有点奇怪。

Bush finally ended up publishing that tome, a generously-proportioned coffee-table book called The King of Style, last month.
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Today Myhrvold announced that The Photography of Modernist Cuisine will debut this fall, finally placing coffee in a coffee-table book.
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But its function is two-fold: planning tool and beautifully photographed coffee-table book.
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a large, expensive book with a lot of pictures, intended to be looked at rather than read

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.