Lesson 6. Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained p.35

Lisa and Bill are talking about their future.

L: What's your goal in life, Bill?

B: To fly in the sky and feel as free as a bird.

L: That's easy.

B: What do you mean?

L: Go bungee jumping.

B: You mush be kidding. It's too dangerous.

L: Well, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Hi ,everybody , i'm bruce .

And the last line happened to be the title of this dialogue ."nothing ventured ,nothing gained " .now please tell us something about this saying .first of all ,please paraphrase this and then lead on . if it's possible ,try to analyse the structure of this saying .

ok . first ,let's talk about the meaning of "nothing ventured ,

nothing gained " .if we don't try to do things in our lives ,we can not learn about life or about ourselves.some people are afraid to try anything new ,and they know how to do or they already know how to do ,but they can not learn something new.some new things may hurt us ,but some new things may help us ,too.Growing up is a learning experience .so we often encourage our friends to try something .find out about it .is it right for you ? is it suitable for you ?you will never know if you don't try it .so,nothing ventured ,if you don't try anything .nothing gained ,you won't learn anything .so ,you can not gain any new ideas or experience .

Growing up is a learning experirnce

If nothing is ventured, nothing will be gained.

you must have the guts to try something new .

now ,we have this word "guts",spell this word and tell us how to use this word 'GUTS".

肠子，that's a original meaning of this .but we also mean "courage "when we say "guts" .for example ,he doesn't have any guts means he is a coward .he is afraid to fight or afraid to try something .if someone has no guts ,then he has no courage .if you have no courage , then you are a coward .

coward cowardly

he doesn't have the guts [he has no guts ] to do sth .

he doesn't have the courage to do something

courage is an uncountable noun.

pluck up one's courage 鼓起勇气 means to make yourself feel brave even thought you might really feel cowardly .

Mark finally plucked up his courage and asked Pearl for a date.

pearl 珍珠 Pearl 女人名 but if you talking about the beautiful stone we find in the shell ,then it is not capitalized .

what's your future plan ?what's your plan for your future ?

well,i'll eat more and sleep more .

if you don't work hard ,you'll never be able to carve out a bright future .

carve out 雕刻出,开创出 By going to school and studying hard, Sam carved out a good career for himself.

attain/reach/fulfill one's goal

he attained a fortune by writing beautiful songs .

he got (made) a fortune by writing beautiful songs.

To attain your goal ,you have to study hard .

Peter desires to be a musician ,well ,peter stop going around .

We can also use “reach one’s goal”. Sara reached her goal by graduating with a master’s degree .

My purpose is to see Mary . my plan is to learn English better .

I feel happy whenever I see you Bruce .

That’s the first time you ever said that , Peter .

It's worse implies that Peter is very mean ,very sly ,very bad.

As...as... I feel as strong as a bull .Peter looks as large as a bull.

Bruce is not as handsome as Peter .

We have another ‘as...as...’expression ...

Peter and I are as busy as bees.

Don’t worry .don’t be nervous .don’t be unhappy . take it easy 放松点

we can also use "easy" as an adverb in this expression .easy come ,easy go.

well, that's talking about me and money .it's easy for me to make money

and it's just as easy for me to spend the money .i can't seem to save any money .

what do you mean by laughting at me ?

What do you mean by calling me at midnight? i just want to say hello .

kidding joking

well ,i'm afraid ,i can't do it .you know ,i'm very cowardly .

well ,nothing ventured ,nothing gained .