The book gives an admirably succinct account of the technology and its history.

这本书对该项技术及其历史作了极其简明的叙述。

The preface of the book includes an account of the author's life.

该书前言记述了作者生平。

The development companies now account for 10 per cent of ICBC's loan book.

这些开发公司目前在工行的贷款账目上占10%的比重。

The book of Acts just looks more like a history; it looks more like a historical account.

而使徒行传则更像一本历史，看起来更像历史性的解释。

But the heart of his book is its account of the unification, or Risorgimento, and of Italy’s subsequent chequered history.

而他这本书的核心是记述意大利的复兴运动及随后格局多变的历史。