Question

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In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the events they covered. Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman ,could be trusted to know what they were about.
上面这句话什么意思？

Answer 1

In those far-off days,那些遥远的日子里，
it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the events they covered.在人们想当然地认为，主要报纸的批评家们会详细地写下他们所报道的事件。
Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman ,他们的职业是严肃的，即使是那些像George Bernard Shaw和Ernest Newman那样轻松的评论家，
could be trusted to know what they were about.也可以相信他们是怎么回事。

Answer 2

在很久以前的时候，人们都认同的是—各大报纸的评论家会写出包含细节的，关于他们采访事件的相当长度的报道。他们会做正经的工作，而且即使是看起来没什么大学问的评论家，像乔治.萧伯纳.肖和欧内斯特.纽曼，人们也信任他们知道自己在做什么。