卡斯卡特上校对绝对无关。他只能在与他人的关系中衡量自己的进步,而他卓越的想法是至少要做一些自己年龄段的人,他们做得更好。(Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own age who were doing the same thing even better.)