I suppose he offered the charm of the unexpected to that mass of undergraduates who, for all their matter-of-fact breeziness, are curiously alive to the romantic.

我想他向那群本科生提供了出乎意料的魅力， 尽管他们在现实生活中轻松自在， 但却充好奇。

What the first writer tried to accomplish by cutting rhetorical capers and by breeziness, the second writer managed to achieve by good reporting, by keeping a tight rein on his material, and by staying out of the act.

作者试图通过减少言辞上的夸张和轻松活泼来实现，二作者则通过良好的报道、严格控制材料以及置身事外而成功地实现了这目标。