F2F Class Notes October 7th (Ben)

spoil / spoiled / spoiled
spoilt / spoilt

One apple has spoilt.
I spoiled the story for you.

autoradio
Good Luck Charlie is a sitcom / a soap opera.

haunt

A season has many episodes.
a habitation

If you bury a body, it will decompose slowly.
burn

A decomposing body releases phosphorus.
腐蚀的尸体会释放出磷物质。

荧光 to glow
荧光棒 a glow stick

Phosphorus sometimes glows at night.

to punish 惩罚

a bad sign, a bad omen 凶兆

Things glowing at night were a bad omen.

(People believed that) [things glowing at night] were actually [dead people coming back.]

But scientists were able to explain this phenomenon.

superstition 迷信

Superstition is the belief in superstitious and supernatural things.

otherwise 否则

If you bury a body, it will decompose slowly. A decomposing body releases phosphorus, which sometimes glows at night. Things glowing at night used to be a bad omen. People believed that things glowing at night were actually dead people coming back. But scientists were able to explain this phenomenon. However, some people are still superstitious about it.