apple-pie

基本解释

His books are always in apple-pie order.
迈克尔是父亲的掌上明珠。不能直译。
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My mother always puts everything in apple-pie order.
我母亲总是把所有东西都收拾得整整齐齐。
She thanks you by giving you a piece of delicious home-made apple pie. This happens several days in a row.
为了表示感谢，她赠给你一片美味的自制苹果派，这在接下来的几天里连续发生。

The little bit at the base is the Sherman Act of 1890, a motherhood-and-apple-pie affair that outlaws monopolies and attracted only one dissenting vote in its passage through Congress.
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An apple pie is a kind of pie made with apples.
If you say that something is as American as apple pie, you mean that it is typically American.