Tackling green recruits that are standing in the line of fire is listed as an absolute must on Time Out China's "Top 10 Things to do in the Heat of Battle". <!--more-->



<h3>Martial vocab</h3>
We pick up some battle-stations vocab in this paragraph, namely: 
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<li>战斗 [pinyin]zhan4 dou4[/pinyin] - fight, combat</li>
<li>上尉 [pinyin]shang4 wei4[/pinyin] - captain</li>
<li>敌机 [pinyin]di4 ji1[/pinyin] - enemy plane</li>
<li>战士 [pinyin]zhan4 shi4[/pinyin] - soldier</li>
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We've also got a bit of a rough sentence in there at the end. I've highlighted what I believe are the hard bits: 

他<strong>顾不上</strong>多想，<strong>一个鱼跃飞身</strong>将小战士紧紧地压在了身下。

The first part, 顾不上, means to not have the resources to attend to something. In this sentence, the resource that we don't have is "time", though the word "time" never explicitly appears. The second part, 一个鱼跃飞身, is a lively description of how the captain jumps towards the soldier. How does he jump? He flies like a fish leaping out of the water, his body, we can presume, horizontal in the air, parallel to the ground. So this sentence might read as:

<em>He didn't have time to think, but leapt into the air like a fish flying straight at the young soldier and pressed him tightly beneath his body.</em>

Ready? Cool, let's read.

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<h3>Chinese text:</h3>
1) 在一场激烈的<strong>战斗</strong>中，<strong>上尉</strong>忽然发现一架<strong>敌机</strong>向阵地俯冲下来。照常理，发现敌机俯冲时要毫不犹豫地卧倒。可上尉并没有立刻卧倒，他发现离他四五米远处有一个小<strong>战士</strong>还站在那儿。他顾不上多想，一个鱼跃飞身将小战士紧紧地压在了身下。此时一声巨响，飞溅起来的泥土纷纷落在他们的身上。上尉拍拍身上的尘土，回头一看，顿时惊呆了：刚才自己所处的那个位置被炸成了一个大坑。

2)【小故事大道理】：在帮助别人的同时也帮助了自己！ 

<a href="https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/430979909812804364.html" target="_blank">See source</a>

 
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1) In the middle of an intense battle, a captain noticed an enemy plane swooping down upon his position. According to common sense, when you see an enemy plan swooping down on you, you should throw yourself flat without hesitation. But the captain didn't immediately lie down, as he saw that 4 or 5 meters away from him a young soldier was still just standing there. He didn't have time to think, but leapt into the air like a fish flying straight at the young soldier and pressed him tightly beneath his body. Just then there was a tremendously loud sound, and flying droplets of mud fell all over them. When the captain brushed the dust off himself, he looked back, and was immediately dumbstruck: the spot where he'd just been [standing] had exploded and had become [nothing more than] a big hole [in the ground].  

2)【The big moral of this little story】：When you help others, you simultaneously help yourself! 
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