In the old days you would really have had just connoisseurship and documentation.

在以前我们只有鉴定专家的文献。

So do you have any thoughts about connoisseurship prior to doing the forensic analysis and that kind or scientific detailing?

你在做鉴定分析或者别的科研究之前，有没有什么鉴定想法了?

M. Papineau, whose nose had brought him there among the first, picked up the weapon and ran his eye over its silver mountings with a mingled air of connoisseurship and grief.

先生是第一批鼻子把他带到这里的人，他拿起武器，目光扫过它的银色底座，脸上夹杂着鉴赏家悲伤的神情。