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Bepleased Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
This is all I know
Hi,
About a song "Into The Blue" by KYLIE MINOGUE,
1. Can the line below be made this paraphrase?
----I don't care if the world is mine, because I have this world all in my mind as a purpose.
the original:
But I'm still here holding on so tight
To everything that I left behind
I don't care if the world is mine
Because this is all I know
2. Can the line below be made this paraphrase?
------I cause nothing to lose by / covering / about tonight my being running free.
the orininal:
Yeah, tonight I'm running free
into the blue
into the blue
with nothing to lose
into the blue
Thanks for your help.
About a song "Into The Blue" by KYLIE MINOGUE,
1. Can the line below be made this paraphrase?
----I don't care if the world is mine, because I have this world all in my mind as a purpose.
the original:
But I'm still here holding on so tight
To everything that I left behind
I don't care if the world is mine
Because this is all I know
2. Can the line below be made this paraphrase?
------I cause nothing to lose by / covering / about tonight my being running free.
the orininal:
Yeah, tonight I'm running free
into the blue
into the blue
with nothing to lose
into the blue
Thanks for your help.
Top answer
1. "This is all I know" appears to mean that the only life she knows is one in which she is "holding on so tight / To everything that I left behind". 2.
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- "This is all I know" appears to mean that the only life she knows is one in which she is "holding on so tight / To everything that I left behind".
- 2.
- I'm afraid I don't understand your paraphrase.
- "nothing to lose" means that no outcome, be it success or failure, would be worse than the present situation.
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1. "This is all I know" appears to mean that the only life she knows is one in which she is "holding on so tight / To everything that I left behind".
2. I'm afraid I don't understand your paraphrase. "nothing to lose" means that no outcome, be it success or failure, would be worse than the present situation.
I would be wary of trying to make too much sense of pop song lyrics.
2. I'm afraid I don't understand your paraphrase. "nothing to lose" means that no outcome, be it success or failure, would be worse than the present situation.
I would be wary of trying to make too much sense of pop song lyrics.
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Hi, GPY,
Wonderful!
You let me see what it is.
Wonderful!
You let me see what it is.
- Yes, it is good that the only life she knows is one in which she is "holding on so tight / To everything that I left behind", as you say. And "This is all I know"-----This is one with all I know.
- “no outcome” as you say, it means outcome that has no effect on me.
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"with" means that she has "nothing to lose" at the same time as she is "running free / into the blue". It may also be implied that having "nothing to lose" is the reason for her "running free / into the blue".
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Hi,GPY,
As you say, the "with" shows a feature / attribute / quality to form part of the nature of her running free / into the blue?
So, the "nothing to lose" is a matrix in which the action is formed or developed.
For example, I read your letter with / in great interest.
= Great interest is included / involved in the action of my reading your letter.
= Grea
As you say, the "with" shows a feature / attribute / quality to form part of the nature of her running free / into the blue?
So, the "nothing to lose" is a matrix in which the action is formed or developed.
For example, I read your letter with / in great interest.
= Great interest is included / involved in the action of my reading your letter.
= Grea
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bepleasedAnd my original logic is real to life.You may have understood the correct meaning, but, in case it still matters to you, "I cause nothing to lose by / covering / about tonight my being running free" unfortunately does not make any sense.
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I read your letter in great interest.
= The thing that I read your letter has the "great interest" in mind as a purpose.
= The thing that I read your letter has the "great interest" in mind as a purpose.
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Hi,
About "This is all I know", I have had a picture in my mind.
But I am not sure that it is true to life.
Would you give them a look over to check my idea?
Thanks for your help.
the logic image in mind is :
all.............I know....................all
know............with all..................which comes
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About "This is all I know", I have had a picture in my mind.
But I am not sure that it is true to life.
Would you give them a look over to check my idea?
Thanks for your help.
the logic image in mind is :
all.............I know....................all
know............with all..................which comes
I
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"This is all I know" is equating two things, broadly in the same way as "This is a book" though referring to abstract things. "all I know" means "all that I know", or "everything that I know". The sentence as a whole means "I do not know anything more than this / other than this".
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Hi,
Wonderful!
You give an alternative way to think about it.
There are two ways to think.
One is to take all I know to identify "this".
You take more than this and other than this to define anything that I don't know.
Wonderful!
You give an alternative way to think about it.
There are two ways to think.
One is to take all I know to identify "this".
You take more than this and other than this to define anything that I don't know.
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