A: As I've pointed out in my own work on Zheng He, this heads the list among all possible motives for the expeditions. Although it's an unsubstantiated theory, the fact is that it appears throughout the written record, so it cannot be ruled out.
答：這一點，我在關於鄭和的著作中也曾提及，在所有可能的原因當中，甚至列為第一順位，雖是未經證實的臆測，但目前所知道的是，這項動機在各種史料及文字記載中一再出現，我們無法排除其可能。