His first novel sold over 40,000 copies in hardback.

【hardback】他的第小说卖出了四万多册精。

The last book we studied, T.S.Eliot's The Wasteland, was available only in hardback. Too expensive for my budget.

我们最后学的书-T·S·艾略特的《荒原》--只有精。这对我来说太贵了。

For the purist, the only way to digest a good story is with a paperback or hardback book.

对于正统主义者来说，阅读个好故事的法用平书或精书。

This is for you. It was a hardback copy of The Wasteland. On the flyleaf was an inscription to me.

这给你的。那精版的《荒原》。扉页上的题字送给我的。

Are you looking for hardbacks or paperbacks?

职员：您要精还平？

Green cover, by the way, cloth, hardback.

色封面，顺便说句， 布，精。

The hardbacks are on the top shelves and the paperbacks on the bottom ones.

精书在最上面的书架上，平书在最下面的书架上。

The resulting modules are about the size of a hardback book, with electrical connectors attached.

由此产生的模块大约精书的大小，并附有电连接器。

The idea was to print good books, in paperback, so they’d be cheaper than hardbacks.

当时的想法用平印刷好书，这样它们会比精便宜。

The clerk asks Adrian, " Are you looking for hardbacks or paperbacks" ?

店员问阿德里安，“您要找精还平”？

I often buy second-hand books, youknow nice hardback copies, but that's different.

我经常买二手书， 你知道很好的精， 但那不同的。

But let’s be clear: it sold millions of copies in hardback.

但让我们明确点：它的精卖出了数百万册。

So, you had a best seller list for paperbacks and you had a best seller list for hardbacks.

所以，你有个平书的畅销书列表， 你有个精书的畅销书列表。

Fiction hardbacks also achieved the largest sales by value in Britain on record, with six titles selling more than 100,000 units on their own.

小说精书在英国的销售额也创下了历史最高纪录，有六书各自销售量超过了10万册。

Adrian answers the question by saying, " I'm not sure" - I'm not sure if I am looking for hardbacks or paperbacks.

阿德里安回答问题时说，“我不确定” ——我不确定我要找的精还平。

Last year, some 202 million paperbacks and hardbacks were sold, and the publishing industry hopes this trend will continue now that people have got into the habit of reading more.

去年，平书和精书共售出 2.02 亿，出版业希望这趋势能够持续下去，因为人们已经养成了阅读更多的习惯。

The hardback copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone — the first book in JK Rowling's stories about a boy wizard — was published in 1997.

这《哈利·波特与魔法石》精书作者JK Rowling写的第关于个巫师男孩故事的书，于1997年出版。

They became so popular that in 2011, The New York Times introduced, or decided to publish, a separate list of popular e-books in addition to the paperback and hardback categories that it had always published.

它们变得如此受欢迎，以至于在 2011 年，纽约时报除了直出版的平和精类别之外，还推出或决定出版份单独的流行电子书清单。