画蛇添足

Don't put any more decorations on the Christmas cake, that would be gilding the lily .

别再给娃诞蛋糕加装饰品了，那会画蛇添足的。她叫莉莉。

Every piece of painting has its language and thoughts; there is no need too many languages and words to pack for gilding the lily.

每张画都有他的语言和思想，无须用太多的语言和文字来包装，那是画蛇添足。

I tend to "go to the bottom while gilding the lily" these days.

或者说这种理性之外的"怪异公共风景"，一种画蛇添足式刨根思维是我目前的创作当中最惯性的思路。

There are many things good in development of mankind civilization. For example, with development of civilization, our living environment becomes more safe, healthy and convenient but there are many things as gilding the lily. We should know how to choose.

人类文明的进步，在许多方面是优良的；比如我们居住的环境，随着科技文明不断的进步与改良而变得更加安全、更有益健康、更方便等等，可是这当中却不免有许多画蛇添足的地方，我们应该要知所选择才好。

That would be gilding the lily.

别油漆了，那会给人一种画蛇添足之感。

Lily A family had a game rules, who is first draw good snake is a cup of wine, a man soon finished, took the wine will drink, he looked at other personnel spent little, he think I why not give snakes on foot?

画蛇添足有一户人家办了一个比赛，规则是谁先画好一条蛇就有一杯酒，一个人很快就画好了，拿过酒就要喝时，他看了看其他的人才花了一点点，他就想我为何不给蛇添上脚呢？

The implementation is patchy, at least for now.

到目前为止看来这个技术成果是画蛇添足的。

The foremost responsibility of the proofreader/editor ought to be to catch errors like this.

校稿者的首要任务则是改错，而不是锦上添花，更不是画蛇添足。

His point that no serious harm is done in such cases has led him to contrive a subplot.

他认为这样做并无大碍。实际上，这是画蛇添足。

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it .

如果你对真理画蛇添足，那么你就是在减损真理。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。