But he said he could earn more pay as an ordinary soldier;

但是他说，作为一位普通的军人所得到的薪金会更高；

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He was reduced to ordinary soldier due to a serious dereliction of duty.

他因严重失职被降为普通士兵。

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He had the square shoulders of a soldier, but his eyes lacked the blank look of the ordinary soldier.

他有一个士兵所应有的阔肩膀，但是他的眼神中却没有一个普通士兵所常有的那种茫然若失的表情。

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So, he had crossed the line. And as an ordinary soldier.

他逾越了本分,以普通的士兵的身份

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The ex-soldier said it was "a monument to ordinary soldiers and I was an ordinary soldier".

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You would expect the ordinary soldier to be fiercer in defence of his homeland than he was in defence of Kuwait.

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There is too little sense of what life was like for the ordinary soldier caught up in the most colossal of conflicts, subjected after decades of peace to an environment for which nothing could have prepared him.

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