Love-related Expressions

long distance relationship
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
When you are with me, you are everything. When you are not with me, everything is you.
out of sight, out of mind
soul mate
my better half
You complete me.
You are the apple of my eye.
You are like an oasis in an desert.
You are like a breath of air in my life.
We just broke up.
He dumped me.
I don't deserve you.
It's not you. It's me.
I love you but I am not in love with you.
I have a date tonight.
double date
blind date
I have been seeing/going out with John.
gold digger
trophy wife
dirty old man
sugar daddy

Notes on 2007-08-14~2007-08-15

eloquent
duplicity, duplicitous
draconian, exceedingly harsh, very severe
edict
elemental

more:
dowry
doyen
drawl
dredge vs drudge
dregs vs dross
drench
drivel
drizzle, drizzly
droll, drollery
drone
droop
drove
duetl
dulcet, dulcify
dumbfound
dummy
dunce
dupe
duress
dynamo
dyslexia
dyspepsia, dyspeptic
earsplitting
eavesdrop, eavesdropper
ebullience, ebullient
ecdysis, ecdysiast
echelon
\'elcat
eclectic, eclectism
eclogue
ecstasy, ecstatic
ecumenical
effervesce
effigy
effluvium, effluvia
effrontery
effulgent, effulgence
egalitarian
egregious
ejaculate, ejaculation
elegy, elegiac
elicit
elixir
elocution
elope
elucidate
elysium
emaciate, emaciation
emancipate
embellish, embellishment
embezzle
embolden
emboss
embroider
embroil
emissary
emollient
emolument

To Explore the Unknown

[1] People attend college or university for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge). Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Our new century has seen an increasing amount of university or college students, who are rushing for incommon experiences, better career preparation or pure knowledge. But I think the most important reason for them is to explore the unknown part of human beings.

Universities and colleges are born for researches in all sorts of sciences and dredging up the hidden truth. In the early days, Newton figure out gravity to explain why apples would fall down onto the ground and developed the famous Newton mechanics. Cauchy, Gauss and other mathematicians founded the basic theory of mathematics, such as mathematical analysis, non-Euclidean geometry and so on. They extended our understanding of the universe, showed us the lasting facts about all kinds of structures.

Human beings themselves are being challenged and discussed in details in universities and colleges. We ask ourselves tough questions, who we are, why we are here, what we are looking for. It's the ultimate care for our species, to understand ourselves better, to get the motivation clear in mind and to tell others what is important in life. Philosophers quarrel about them, biologists analyze the physical structure of humans and psychiatrists try to cure our mental diseases. There's no moment we stop exploring the unknown part of ourselves.

The most important difference of a university to a high school is that it's not knowledge accumulated during the past decades that counts. It's our curiosity about the unknown part of the world and ourselves that differs and compels us to find the answers, which universities and colleges are built for.

25 min. 261 words.
incommon -> uncommon
figure -> figured

I should start practising writing.

The writing ability might be improved by writing essays of 185 topics along with diary related stuffs. I will keep two branches working: here I'd like to put my own essays of 185 topics, for later evaluation; I will start another English blog for diary, maybe in the diary apart.

And I should put those word put down here into practice ASAP.

Notes on 2007-08-11~2007-08-12

diurnal, relating to occuring in a 24-hour period, daily; active during the daytime
ditty, a simple song, vs ballad
dismay
divagate, to wander or drift about

more:
disheveled vs bedraggled
disinter, to dig up from a grave, to bring public notice
disjunct, disjunction, disjunctive
dislodge, lodge
disparage
disparate, disparity
disport, to amuse oneself in a light frolicsome manner
disposed
disposition
disquisition
disseminate
dissent, assent
dissident, one who disagrees, dissenter
dissipate, dissipated, dissipation
distend, distension
distrait
distraught
distress, stress
diva
devest, devestiture
divulge
dock
dodder
doggerel
doldrums
dole, doleful, dolorous
doodle
dorsal
dote, doting, dotage
dour
dawdy

Notes on 2007-08-10

bout, a contest between antagonists, a match
brusque, abrupt and curt in manner or speech
brook, to put up with, tolerate; small river

more:
beatific, beatitude
dizen, bedizen
bellicose
belligerent
benediction
benefactor, beneficient, beneficial, beneficiary
benevolent
benign
benison
bequeath, bequest
bludgeon
bluster
bode
bogus
boisterous
bombast
bough, dough
boudoir
boulder
bowdlerize
boycott
brackish
braid
brash, brassy, brazen
bravura
brawl
broach
brocade
bromide
bruit
brunt
buck, buckle
bucolic
bulk
bulwark
burgeon

Notes on 2007-08-09

dirge, a funeral hymn or lament

more:
aviary
avuncular
awl
awning
azure
bacchanal
badger
bail vs bale vs bane
ballad
ballot
bandy
bard
baron vs barren
barrister
bathetic
bauble
bawl
beacon
din
dnghy vs dingy
dipsomania
dire
disburse, imburse, reimburse
discourse
discreet (discretion) vs discrete
discretionary