did not understand the teacher

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Teacher: Journalists who conceal the identity of the sources they quote stake their professional reputations on what may be called the logic of anedotes. This is so because the statements reported by such journalists are dissociated from the precise circumstances in which they were made and thus will be accepted for publication only if the statements are high in plausibility or originality or interest to a given audience-precisely the properties of a good anecdote.

Student: But what you are saying, then, is that the journalist need not bother with sources in the first place. Surely, any reasonably resourceful journalist can invent plausible, original, or interesting stories faster than they can be obtained from unidentified sources.

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Teacher: Journalists who conceal the identity of the sources they quote stake their professional reputations on what may be called the logic of anedotes.
不注明出处的记者 在赌 他们的专业声誉。
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This is so because the statements reported by such journalists are dissociated from the precise circumstances
这是为什么呢？ 因为这些报道与真实环境脱节。
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the precise circumstances in which they were made and thus will be accepted for publication
they---》指代statements
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only if the statements are high in plausibility or originality or interest to a given audience-
statements 什么时候会被接受？
只有在 statements 有足够的  可信性（plausibility）或者  独创性 （originality ） 或者 趣味性（interest）
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precisely the properties of a good anecdote.
特别是  the properties of a good anecdote.