Saturday, 5 February 2011

金玉其外 – 這是一個爛蘋果




今天午飯後,小兒子咬了一口爛蘋果。這時候,兒子的媽媽很擔心,因為她想起數年前看過的一則有關爛水果的報導。

  From the outside it was beautiful, and anyone who saw it would want it. But anyone who might eat a little piece of it would die. - From Snow White
台灣一名男子在果園裏摘梨,他看到一個已爛了半邊的梨,隨口在未爛那部分咬了一口,隨即丟棄。數小時後,那男子開始劇烈嘔吐,隨即呼吸困難,送院急救後,發現他是因為吃了含鐮刀霉菌的梨,導致急性肺水腫,差點便掉命。 其實周遭有很多人都會做過同樣的傻事,看到水果爛了,削去爛掉那部分便繼續啃,其實這是非常危險的。因為霉菌會在腐爛的水果中不斷繁殖,並會將有毒的物質,經過水果汁液滲透入尚未腐壞那部分,甚至傳播至放在一起的水果。人們吃了爛水果中的真菌毒素,會頭痛、頭暈、嘔吐、腹脹、噁心,嚴重還會昏迷及命危。

Remember, one bad apple spoils the barrel and kills you too.

2 comments:

  1. And I thought 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away'! Much more like the opposite...

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  2. This is actually the first time in my life to see an apple rotting inside. So it is a real-life application to jin yu qi wai bai xu qi zhong 金玉其外,敗絮其中,a stuffed shirt and all that glitters is not gold.

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