His magpie's eye for detail includes not just quirks of the past but first-hand reportage worthy of a fine travel writer.
心思细如微,书中不仅仅是仅仅记载了些稀奇古怪的历史轶事,还相当于位优秀旅行作家所做的忠实的手记录。
Reportage required trained journalists, who used what came to be known as the journalistic method, which Stephens defines as, “… the pursuit of independently verifiable facts about current events through enterprise, observation and investigation.”
报道需要受过训练的记者,们使用后来被称为新闻方法的东西进行报道,斯蒂芬斯把这种方法定义为:“… … 通过事业心、观察和调查,寻求关于时事的可独立验证的事实。”