What I have learnt for English very recently. I am a big fan of the TV show <friends> (I am not sure if the punctuations used here is right), which, by the way, is kinda out of date from many people's points of views, but I still like it a lot, although the time I found it which maybe my second year for master degree was kinda late. It is really funny and a good entertainment to watch it together with my friends, plus the language they use are practical and simple, so I have been keeping trying to memorize a few words or idioms every couple of days when I got time, which indeed help a lot. All right, let me list the words and idioms that is new to me today and this may be gonna last for couple of days, you guys can see whether they are new to you or out of date if you are interested, welcome any comment or correction: From season 1 charpter 1: 1. hairpiece 2. bemused It is always used to describe Joey. ^_^ 3. mortified 4. pluck 5. aura 6. fixate 7. hysterical 8. metaphor 9. grin 10. deadpan. 11. commercial break Actually with the video I realized this phrase may refer to commercial advertisement. 12. on the mark. There's an idiom called right on the mark, right? 13. matrimony Before this word, I only knew marriage, so what's the difference？ 14. upbeat Just like matrimony, before upbeat I only knew the word optimistic that describes a person who is always happy and not easy to get depressed. Now, I got (I'm not sure about the tence I used here, it's just an intuition I wanna use get, but I feel like it's kinda wierd which I don't know why) an extra one. 15. geek Right, we got geeks everywhere all round the world especially in China where exams are over-emphasized. 16. lingo This word actually comes from the latter season, I put it here in case I forget. So what's the difference between lingo and terminology? The former is more colloquial and the latter is more formal? All right, so much for today.