词语掌故: 井然有序 (2/2)

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概述：与苹果相关的谚语表达。
Hints:
Juno
Minerva
Venus
Paris
Trojan
Spain
Morocco
Italy
"pomo di Moro"
Moors
"d'amour"
PS. 1分09秒和1分20秒处有破折号。
校对：OFELIA1030
翻译&注解：kiwiangle
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发音点评：岩见泽
本期材料发音模仿地址：http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/11885/item/805031/It was not an easy decision to make. How could they choose among Juno, Minerva and Venus? Paris was given the task of deciding. He decided to give the golden apple to Venus. Juno and Minerva were very angry and threatened him. This, the myth says, began the long Trojan war.
At one time, the tomato was called a love apple. That was a mistake. This is how the mistake happened:
In the 16th century, Spain imported the tomato from South America after Spanish explorers had landed there. Spain then exported the tomato to Morocco. Italian traders carried it on to Italy. The Italian name for the tomato was "pomo di Moro" -- apple of the Moors.
When French growers imported it from Italy, they thought "di Moro" meant "d'amour" -- the French word for love. And so "pomo di Moro" became the apple of love.
People believe many things about the apple. One belief is that it has great powers of keeping people healthy. A very common expression is "an apple a day keeps the doctor away."
Another belief is based on fact. The expression is "one rotten apple spoils the barrel." When an apple begins to go bad, it ruins all the other apples around it in the container. The expression has come to mean that one bad person in a group can cause everyone to act bad.这不是一个容易的决定。如何在朱诺、密涅瓦和维纳斯之间做出选择呢？他们最终请帕里斯来做评判。帕里斯将金苹果给了维纳斯。朱诺和密涅瓦非常气愤并威胁帕里斯。据神话所述，这件事，成为了漫长的特洛伊战争的导火索。
番茄曾一度被称为爱情的苹果。这是一个错误，其由来是这样的：
16世纪，当西班牙探险家们踏上南美大陆后，西班牙开始从南美进口番茄，之后将其出口到摩洛哥。意大利商人将番茄转运至意大利。番茄的意大利名称为"pomo di Moro”——摩尔人的苹果。
法国种植者从意大利进口番茄时，他们以为"di Moro"指的是"d'amour" ——在法语中意为“爱”。于是，摩尔人的苹果就变成了爱情的苹果。
人们相信有关苹果的许多说法。其中之一就是认为苹果有保持健康的强大功能。一个十分常见的短语是“一天一苹果，医生远离我”。
人们的另外一个观点则是基于事实的。这个短语是“一个烂苹果烂一筐苹果”。当一个苹果开始腐烂，它也会毁掉同一容器中的其他苹果。这个短语被引申为团队中一个表现差的人会影响其他人的表现。