英语说－－一颗老鼠屎毁了一锅粥

英语里如何表达－－－－一颗老鼠屎毁了一锅粥呢？


A rotten apple spoils the barrel.


英语解释是：


One bad individual can spoil an entire group.


该词源于:

The idea was stated as long ago as the fourteenth century (in a Latin proverb sometimes translated as 'the rotten apple injures its neighbors'), long before the mechanism of spreading mold or other plant disease was understood. Benjamin Franklin repeated the sentiment in Poor Richard's Almanack(1736): "The rotten apple spoils his companion."