He made a living of sorts selling encyclopedias door-to-door.
他靠挨家挨户推销百科全书勉强谋生。
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A complicating factor has been the continuing lack of specialized one-volume reference works on Asian Americans, such as biographical dictionaries or desktop encyclopedias.
一个复杂的因素是，一直缺乏专门针对亚裔美国人的一卷参考著作，如传记词典或台式百科全书。
In the reference library, there are dictionaries, encyclopedias, books of maps and other useful books.
