What did the captain mean when he said,"sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're really not losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else"?

It means "that when we sacrifice something we are not losing but giving someone else a chance or something to improve their lives."

Explanation:

The given quote is taken from "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" written by Mitch Albom.

The novel is about Eddie, an 83-year-old man, who died saving a young girl. The next thing that happened was Eddie was in heaven where he meets five people who impacted his life when he was young.

The second person that he met in heaven was Captain. Captain and Eddie worked together in Vietnam War. Captain shares his experience with Eddie and how he died. At this point, he states the given quote. Captain sacrificed his life, while they were on a mission, for his team. the Captain meant to say that when we sacrifice something for others we do not lose anything but we help them.

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the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)