His magpie's eye for detail includes not just quirks of the past but first-hand reportage worthy of a fine travel writer.
他心思细如微,书是记载了一些稀奇古怪历史轶事,还相当于一位优秀旅行作家所做忠实第一手记录。
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.”
报道需要受过训练记者,他们使用后来被称为新闻方法东西进行报道,斯蒂芬斯把这种方法定义为:“… … 通过事业心、观察和调查,寻求关于时事可独立验证事实。”