If there is only a small amount of rot, the dead material can be cut away.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

And the challenge is to combine "the permission to be human" to experience the emotion to go through the motion and yet not to enter the downward spiral where six months later, after small incident, I'm still in that rot.

困难在于将之与准许为人相结合“,去体会情绪，实现转移,但不会进入下行螺旋，在发生小小意外六个月后，仍心情低落。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The bananas ripen too quickly and begin to rot.

VOA: special.2009.09.21