按【àn】
1. according to 2. press
[介]1、以某事为根据照着去做 [动]2、用手或手指压;压住

按计划,公司明年就可以上市。
According to the schedule, the company is to go public next year.

我按了半天门铃,却没有人来开门。
I pressed the door bell for a long time but nobody answered.
按部就班【àn bù jiù bān】
1. follow the prescribed order; step-by-step 2. keep to conventional ways of doing things
[成]1、按照一定的步骤、顺序进行 2、按老规矩办事,缺乏创新精神

学习知识应该循序渐进,按部就班。
Learning is a step-by-step process.

我们不能像往常那样按部就班地干,必须打破常规。
We should break the rules rather than keep to the old ways.
按劳分配【àn láo fēn pèi】
distribution according to work
[动短] 按劳动者提供社会劳动的数量和质量分配消费品

按劳分配和按需分配是两种不同的分配模式。
Distribution according to work and distribution according to needs are two different modes of distribution.