Cleaning Out the Spirit
Verb List
1. Stay away from to avoid something that has a bad effect on you
2. Believe in to be sure that something exists or that something is true
3. Clean out to clean the inside of something
4. Hook up to connect a machine ot a power supply or to another machine, or to connect a person to a piece of medical equipment
5. Look down on to think that someone is less important than you, or to think that something is not good enough for you to use
How many times have mom said to Mazzy stay away from candies? The answer is many times. When Mazzy was young, she got hooked up to sweetness. She did not believe in eating candies will bring her to teeth cavity easily even though Mazzy brushed her teeth twice a day. The main concern of Mom was not only about Mazzy's dental health. She was afraid people may look down on her daugther if she is taking so much pleasure on sweet stuff as Mom knows life is not all about enjoyment and sweet all the time. As a result, mom stopped buying her any candies for a month and hope to clean out her craving of sweetness in taste and possiblily in life.
Cleaning Out the Spirit
Verb List
1. Stay away from to avoid something that has a bad effect on you
2. Believe in to be sure that something exists or that something is true
3. Clean out to clean the inside of something
4. Hook up to connect a machine to a power supply or to another machine, or to connect a person to a piece of medical equipment
5. Look down on to think that someone is less important than you, or to think that something is not good enough for you to use
Believe in: Believe in (a noun or gerund) — not believe in a (sentence)
Believe in eating candies — ok
Believe in eating candies will… — not ok.
Clean out: used with things. Clean out is used for a place. I used it for ‘the spirit’ in my story- that was metaphor. I treated ‘the spirit’ like a place. Sometimes we treat ‘the heart’ as a place, even though it cannot be touched. In your story, there is no ‘place’ that is being cleaned out so I changed the word to ‘end’.
How many times has mom said to Mazzy, “Stay away from candies?” The answer is many times. When Mazzy was young, she got hooked on sweetness. She did not believe that eating candies would cause tooth cavities easily even though Mazzy brushed her teeth twice a day. Mom’s main concern of was not only about Mazzy's dental health. She was afraid people may look down on her daughter if she is taking so much pleasure in sweet stuff as Mom knows life is not all about enjoyment and sweetness all the time. As a result, Mom stopped buying her any candies for a month and hoped to end her craving of sweetness in taste and possibility in life.