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
,
中不仅仅是仅仅记载了一些稀奇古怪的历史轶事,还相当于一位优秀旅
作家所做的忠实的第一手记录。
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.”
道需要受过训练的记者,他们使用后来被称为新闻方法的东西

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。”
But while Down and Out had been close to reportage, Burmese Days introduced one of the key characteristics of Orwell's fiction: a lonely protagonist trapped in an oppressive system who can't seem to escape no matter what he does.
但
果说《巴黎伦敦落魄记》更接近于
道,《缅甸岁月》则引入了奥威尔小说的一个关键特征:一个孤独的主人公被困在一个压迫性的体系中,无论他怎么努力都无法逃脱。