Love (Word of the Day, 2008/1/16)

Ann Lee

verb:
►care about: to care very much about someone ,especially a member of your family or close friend.
Ex: Children need to feel loved.
►like/enjoy : to like something very much or enjoy doing something very much.
Ex: Ivan found that he really loved teaching.
►I must love you and leave you: spoken used to tell someone that you have to go, especially when you wish you could stay longer
►loyalty : to have strong feeling of loyalty to your country, an institution… etc.
EX: He really loved the police force.
►I love it！ spoken used when you are amused by something, especially by someone else’s mistake or bad luck.

none:
►for family/friends【＋for】
EX: What these kids need is love and support.
►pleasure/enjoyment: a strong feeling of pleasure and enjoyment that something gives you.
EX: Sailing is her great love.
►person you love
EX: He was her first love.
►love of/ for
EX: a love of nature.
►send your love (to): to ask someone to give your loving greetings to someone else when they see them, write to them… etc.
EX: Aunt Mary sends her love to you.
►there is no love lost between: if there is no love lost between two people, they dislike each other.
►not for love or/ nor money: (informal) if you cannot get something or do something love or money, it is impossible obtain or to do.
►love-child: a word used especially in newspapers meaning a child whose parents are not marriage.
►Love apple＝tomato
►Love-lock 【額前】可愛的捲髮

Sustain (Word of the Day, 2007/12/5)

James Wang

Sus: under
tain: to hold

verb: sustain, sustained, sustaining
►to support, keep from falling or sinking, carry or withstand a weight or pressure
--Can this light shelf sustain all these books?
--The dam could not sustain the heavy head of water.
--Arches sustain the weight of the roof.
►to keep up without interruption, or flagging; maintain
--He had to sustain a large family.
--Hopes alone sustained him in his misery.
►to endure, withstand
--I couldn’t sustain such an impolite act.
--The sea wall sustains the shock of the wave.
--Can we sustain the climate change like in the movie "Ice age 2"?
►to suffer
--The driver sustained severe injuries when his car crashed.
--The walls of its building sustained bullet scars in a riot.
►to permit, receive, undergo
--The court sustained his suit claim.
►to confirm, corroborate
--The facts sustained his theory.
►to play or act the part or character
--There is no reason why she should not have sustained both roles.
►to prevent (as one’s mind or spirit ) from sinking
--I read history to sustain myself in violent confusion of these years.

adjective: sustainable
►capable to being borne or endured；supportable, bearable
--Religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

adjective: sustained
►maintained at length without interruption , weakness or losing in power
or quality.
--sustained yield
►A recurrent increment of a biological resource (as timber or fish)
--to make a sustained efforts

adjective: sustaining
►aiding in the support of an organization through a special fee.
--A sustaining member paying US$ 20 to their club annually.
--sustaining force/ power

--sustaining program/sustaining show
►A radio or television program that is paid for by a station or network had no any commercial sponsor.

noun: sustenance
►food, refreshments, nourishment
--There’s more sustenance in cocoa than in tea.
--He gave money for the sustenance of a poor family.

noun: sustainer
►one who or that which sustains
--The decease of the sponsors leaves the children without their natural protector and sustainer

noun: sustainability
►to keep going; keep up an action or process; to keep up without intermission
--LOHAS is an acronym for Lifestyles Of Health And Sustainability.

University (Word of the Day, 2008/1/2)

By Kevin Chiu

University, plural: uni·ver·si·ties
►Etymology:
Middle English universite, from Anglo-French université, from Medieval Latin universitat-, universitas, from Latin universus
• Date: 14th century
►An institution of higher learning providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees; specifically: one made up of an undergraduate division which confers bachelor's degrees and a graduate division which comprises a graduate school and professional schools each of which may confer master's degrees and doctorates.

►Community of teachers and scholars
-- Which university did you go to/were you at (= did you study at)?


Open University: noun [S] UK


►In Britain, a college especially established to educate older people who did not get a degree when they were young.
►Students study by special television and radio programmes and they usually send their work to their teachers by post.


• Associate’s Degree --- Community College
• Bachelor’s Degree -- College or University
• Master’s Degree – Graduate School
• Specialist’s Degree
• Doctoral Degree
• Post Doctoral Degree

Toastmaster (Word of the Day, 2007/12/19)

By Alan Lin

noun: toast

►Sliced bread that has been heated so that it is brown on both sides and no longer soft.
--I had a piece of toast for breakfast.
--French toast (often known as eggy bread in the UK) is made with bread and eggs.
►A call to a gathering to honor someone or something by raising glasses and drinking.
--I’d like to propose a toast to the bride and groom.
►An act of raising a glass and drinking in honor of somebody or something.
--We drank a toast to innocence. We drank a toast to now, and tried to reach beyond the emptiness. But neither one knew how.
►Somebody or something honored by a toast
--The first toast drunk after dinner was to its success.
►Congratulatory speech
--Wedding toast
--So this is the toast I would like to make to you: ‘May your love be modern enough to survive the times and old-fashioned enough to last forever.’
►Admired person
--Be the toast of Broadway/Hollywood
--Ang Lee is the toast of Hollywood.
►Very warm and comfort
--Warm as toast
--They sat near the fire, warm as toast.
►To be in trouble because of something you have done
--Be toast
--If you don't get your homework done in time, you're toast!

verb: toast, toasted, toasted
►To make bread or other food brown by placing it close to heat.
--I lightly toasted two pieces of bread for breakfast.
►To sit near a source of heat to warm the body or a part of the body
--He was toasting his feet by the fire.
--He lay toasting in the sun.
►To drink in honor of somebody or something.
--We toasted the bride and bridegroom.

adjective: toasty
►Warm and comfortable
--Are you in need of a toasty home this winter?

noun: toaster
►A machine you use for toasting bread.

noun: toastmaster
►Someone who introduces the speakers at a formal occasion such as a banquet.
--Kevin selected Nina to preside at the banquet as toastmaster.

noun: Toastmaster(appliances)
►The name of one of the world’s first automatic electric toasters for home use.
►A brand of toasters and other small kitchen appliances. The brand changed hands several times and finally went public in 1992 as Toastmaster, Inc.

noun: Toastmasters/ Toastmasters International (TI)
►A nonprofit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills.

noun: Toastmaster
►A member of Toastmasters Club.
--I am proud to be a Toastmaster and I know you are too.

Brief history of TI
►In October 1924, Dr. Ralph C. Smedley formed the first Toastmasters club in the basement of the YMCA in Santa Ana, California, U.S.A.
►In 1962, TI moved into its first World Headquarters building in Santa Ana.
►In 1990, TI moved into its new World Headquarters building in Rancho Santa Margarita, California.

Advertise (Word of the day, 2007/11/21)

By Steve Chang

Advertise

Definition

1. To make (something for sale, service offered, room to rent, etc.) known to the public, as in a newspaper, or on television.
登廣告(售物、求職、出租等)
2. To ask (for someone or something) by placing an advertisement in a newspaper, shop windows, etc.
登廣告(招聘、徵購等)

Meaning of a word
Advertise
1. v.t.
登...廣告、通知
To advertise goods for sales.
登廣告求售
To advertise a house for rent.
登廣告出租房屋
I advertised him of my plan.
我通知他我的計畫
2. v.i.
去登廣告
to advertise for a job
登廣告求職
People often advertise for a servant in the newspaper.
人們常在報紙上登廣告徵求傭人
It pays to advertise.
登廣告是值得的
To advertise oneself.
自吹
Advertisement
n.
廣告
Advertisement helps to sell goods.
廣告幫助推銷貨物
Advertiser (advertizer)
n.
刊登廣告者、廣告主
Advertising
1. n.
廣告業
To secure customers by advertising.
用廣告招攬顧客
2. adj.
廣告的、與廣告有關的
Advertising agency
廣告公司
Advertising rate
廣告費

Gratitude (Word of the day, 2007/11/7)

By Henry Ke

Gratitude
—{N.}
—The feeling of being grateful.
—{Ex.}
—Tears of gratitude filled with his eyes.
How to Use
—{+to/towards}
—Children had a deep gratitude towards parents.
—{in gratitude for sth.}
—Will you let me take you out to dinner tomorrow in gratitude for what you have done.
—{with gratitude}
—Refugees accepted charity organizations help with gratitude.
Synonym
—Thanks
—Thankfulness
—Gratefulness
—Thanksgiving

Wonders (Word of the day, 2007/10/17)

By Angela Yu

Wonders

►wonder (n.)
It was a wonder that _____ managed to come at all----Unbelievable! She is so busy nowadays.
I shall never forget the look of wonder on her face the first time it snowed.
The wonders of modern technology
The Seven Wonders of the World

►wonder (v.)
I wonder what she will look like.

►wonderful (adj.)
A: “Guess what?” I have got a job at last.
B: “Wonderful!”

►wonderfully (adv.)
Dr. Landy says you are doing wonderfully well.

►wonderland (n.)
He went into the old lady’s house and found himself in wonderland.

►wonder child
►wonder drug

►wonder-stricken (and.): very surprised

►no wonder (little wonder, small wonder)
You were late this morning and no wonder, considering that you had passed such a terrible night.

►a nine days’ wonder
The singer is a nine days’ wonder. She is popular and interesting for a short time.