On the score of delicacy, or any scrupulousness which a finer sensibility might have taught him, the Colonel, like most of his breed and generation, was impenetrable.

考虑到精致，或任何一种更敏锐的感受力可能教会他的谨慎，上校就像他这一代人中的大多数人一样，是难以理解的。