Imitation cloth: Strong and embossed paper commonly used for binding hardback books instead of cotton cloth.

充布:常用来代替棉布作装订精装书籍的坚固和压有布纹的纸。

The publisher proposed to do both a hardback and a cheap paperback edition.

出版商提议既出精装本也出廉价的纸面本。

But there were bookshelves built into all four walls, and hundreds of books--hardback books with spines of many colors--surrounded us in that room

但是它四面墙上全部装修了嵌入式书架，上面摆了数百本书籍--那些精装本的书脊呈现着各种颜色，--它们在那间屋里把我们团团围住。

3 is very cheap for a hardback book.

花3英镑买精装书很上算.

Hard-cover: Book sellers’ term to mean case-bound book as distinguish from soft-cover.Synonymous with Hardback .

精装本:英文是书商用名词，意指精装本;以别于平装本。

Hardback : Book sellers’ term to mean case-bound book as distinguish from paper-back.Synonymous with Hard-cover.

精装本:英文是书商用名词，意指精装本;以别于普及本。

Your book will be issued as hardback

你的书将以精装版本发行。

He has found that he cannot sell hardback books

他发现他卖不出精装书

My novel has just appeared in hardback .

我的小说刚出精装本.

A first work of fiction, if it has any luck at all, will sell perhaps 3,000 copies in its hardback edition

一部一流的小说，如果有运气的话，可能卖出3000本精装本子。

Printed paper case (ppc): A common finish for hardback children’s books, where the covering material over the boards is paper which has been printed and laminated.

印刷纸封壳:硬皮儿童书籍常用的修饰方法。书壳的包面材料是经过印刷和裱胶的纸。

The book has just appeared in hardback .

这本书有精装本问世.

The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon (Fig Tree, hardback , out now).

《牛奶的颜色》，内尔·雷尚著（无花果树出版社，精装版，已上市）

Reality, Reality by Jackie Kay (Picador, hardback , out now).

《现实，现实》，杰基·凯著（斗牛士出版社，精装版，已上市）

Self Portrait, from 1630, is one of only five paintings he executed on copper, and one of his smallest, the size of a hardback book.

1630年自画像是他的五幅镀金铜版画之一，也是最小的画作之一，只有精装书大小。

Bloomsbury has now bowed to the pressure and will publish the hardback of Liar this October featuring a black girl.

布伦斯贝利已经屈服于压力，并将在今年10月份出版的精装版上以黑人女孩作封面。

Moreover, if they buy Posner in paperback instead of Sowell in hardback , they will save 10 bucks.

而且如果他们买波斯纳的平装本而不是索厄尔的精装本，他们还可以节约10块钱。

She adds: “It’s very rare for a hardback to outsell a future paperback, but this might be one of those exceptions. ”

她补充说：“很少有精装本比未来可能出版平装本卖得火，但这本肯定属于这种特例。”

In the first five months of this year sales of consumer e-books in America overtook those from adult hardback books.

今年前五个月，美国的电子书的销量超过了成人精装书。

hardback sales in the US are up this year, despite the march of books.

尽管电子书在大行其道，今年美国的精装书销量仍在上升。

For now, Makinson says, digital books are expanding the market; hardback sales in the US are up this year, despite the march of ebooks.

梅金森说目前数字图书正在扩展其市场；尽管电子书在大行其道，今年美国的精装书销量仍在上升。

Would you prefer a hardback edition ?

您要不要买一本精装本？

a paperback/hardback edition

平装本；精装本

He handed Peterson a wrapped package about the size of a hardback book.

他递给彼得森一个差不多精装版书籍大小的包装好的包裹。

I prefer paperback or hardback books for pleasure reading but, for research, I prefer a device with access to the Internet.

娱乐性阅读时我更喜欢平装或者精装的纸质书，但如果是做研究，我更喜欢可以连入互联网的设备。

There are still traditional readers but, even for them, the hardback library books may evolve in the near future.

这仍有一般的读者，但即使是对他们来说，精装的图书在不远的未来也可能有了变化。

The book is long and the hardback was heavy, so he read it on his Kindle.

这是本大块头的精装版长篇小说，所以他在Kindle上阅读。

Since starting in 1947, it has produced sumptuous but affordable hardback versions of classics and obscure books alike.

自1947年创立以来，一直出版经典著作与小众著作的精装本——装帧精美，但也让读者支付得起。