Despite the fact that neither he nor anyone else in the Fellowship of Friends knew anything at all about Ming furniture, they began to feel their way forward into this new realm, albeit "nearly completely naively" and even "sometimes hastily."
儘管當時他自己與友朋會的會員對這些傢具完全是門外漢，他們卻「幾近天真」，甚至「莽撞」地一腳踏進了這片新天地。