Girl versus Woman

Girl
Pronunciation: \gər(-ə)l\

Function: noun
1. [C]: a female child from birth to adulthood, especially one still at school
2. [C]: a daughter
3. [C]: a young unmarried woman
4. [C usually plural] a woman worker, especially when seen as one of a group: Shop / office girls

woman
Pronunciation: \wu-mən, especially Southern wō- or wə-\
Function: noun

1. [C] : an adult female human being
2. [C] INFORMAL a man's wife or partner
3. [U] women in general
4. a woman who is a servant or personal attendant
5. a chiefly dialect: wife / mistress / girlfriend


Example sentence
I got more confuse about the meaning of girl and woman after I checked the dictionary.

The Ancient Greek aphorism "Know yourself" was inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. I remember it said by Socrates, he is one of my favorite western philosophers. As a human being, gender is a main feature and deeply affects our emotions, thoughts, behaviors…, so why I choose theses two words.

I would wonder when dose people call her a woman instead of a girl. I assume when our secondary sexual characteristics appears, and then people think the girl becomes woman. Is that true? If that is true, now, we can call an 11 or 12 years old girl a woman. Or maybe we think after she has sexual experiences, then she becomes woman, according the definition, if she never do that, even she is 40, then we still regard her as a girl or what?

What are the attributes in the woman? It should more than sexual issues, such as independence, wisdoms, maternity….maybe have some negative attributes. In my cultural context, you are always a girl unless you marry and have children, have your own family.

I didn't think about these things before. You grow up, then someday the people call you miss instead of girl. I wanna figure out is there a line between girl and woman, and how we cross that, and how it feel after the change. I am a little embarrassing about this situation. You do not really know what happen to you as if you had a dream. Anyway, it's a nice beginning to know yourself. Don't you think so?

typhoon

Typhoon
Pronunciation: \tī- `fün\
Function: noun
1 : a violent wind which has a circular movement, found in the West Pacific Ocean
2 : a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea

Example sentence

There are lots of people have been washed away by floods or buried alive, remained missing, injured during a typhoon Kalmaegi in the Taiwan.

Related Words: tropical cyclone, hurricane
See what are the differences among these? (typhoon, cyclone, hurricane)

Here was already bright and the day has beginning....
I was walking around the racetrack, looking at the trees, breathing the fresh air in the elementary school nearby my home this morning. What a peaceful day, you couldn't image the typhoon just passed by, except watch the News. At least five low-lying areas in central and southern Taiwan were still inundated by floods brought by torrential rains, the News said. The dam had broken or lack of it causes this miserable situation.

After the typhoon, vegetables price will go higher and higher, rice is also…but I have no complain with that, however I didn't lose anyone my treasure, no need to clean the mud full of the house, no worry about the car which was flooded…by the way, I saw a funny journalist reported the typhoon news on TV, maybe call him idiot is more appropriate. He seemed excited and asked the woman who her car was flooded in basement for two days, how is your feeling now?

The woman replied irritatingly, I have no feeling, if your Merced Benz just brought few days ago then now change into rubbish, what is your feeling, I have no feeling, I have no idea that is what my feeling.

That's the only one make me laugh about whole typhoon news.

Obstacle

Obstacle
Pronunciation : \ äb-sti-kəl \ (click here)
Function : noun [C]

something that blocks you so that movement, going forward or action are prevented or made more difficult:
Synonyms: obstacle, obstruction, bar1, barrier, block, hindrance, impediment, snag

example sentence
The biggest obstacle in our way was a tree trunk in the road.
This decision has removed the last obstacle to the hostages' release.

Why I choose this one to be my first word in the blog, because it excited my interest in English. Well, I have no more interest in English after I have to read a lot of literature about my professional field. Even some funny things, if they write by English, I also glance through them, then an idea comes out, what a alien's language until someday I surfing the net and I found a picture in my space's blog.

The blogger puts a picture which is a child looks like mental retardation, the child try to shoot a ball arduously. A sentence; a hero is someone who overcome his own obstacle below the picture. I was very impressed by this, although I am not sure what dose the mean of obstacle, but I guess it should mean difficult or something like that, then I check it on web dictionary, suddenly I found how long I didn't to search something only by my interesting not for assignment or professor's request. I enjoy learning by this way, no one to push you, no dateline.

It is so struck me by two reason, the first one is I love she use this two words - his own. It seems to clam obstacle is a particular meaning in everyone, each person has their own explanation on it, I feel it's difficult to me, but maybe you are not and therefore we can't compare the obstacle between the two person, we can't say he could beat that, you should could. It's unfair and negative, we could say he got over that however it's not of your business, but maybe we can learn something from his experience if you needed.

The second one is hero dose always mean a grand person, a saint, a man who ride white horse…ha..ha…, anyway it's not you and me, a real person, an ordinary guy.
This proverb reminds me I could be a hero in my daily life.