Chinese translation for "画蛇添足"

 
(比喻做多余的事, 反而不恰当) paint a snake with feet -- superfluous; add legs to one's sketch of a serpent; (the additional discourses on ...) are completely superfluous.; carry [send] coals to newcastle; dangerous superfluity; draw a snake and add feet to it -- to spoil things by going to extremes; draw a snake with feet added to it -- redundant; fan the breezes; gild [paint] the lily; to overreach the mark is just as bad as not reaching it.; ruin the effect by adding what is superfluous; the action [measure; step] just taken was really unnecessary

Related Translations:

不要画蛇添足:  leave well aloneleave well enough alonelet well alone

Example Sentences:

	1.	More examples just belabour it . 佐证多了，反而画蛇添足。
	2.	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。
	3.	You are wasting your time in painting the lily 你们这是把时间浪费在画蛇添足上。
	4.	You ' ll be painting the lily if you try to correct his article 你去改动他的文章真是画蛇添足。
	5.	The necessity and feasibility of retranslating the foreign masterpieces 名著重译并非都是画蛇添足
	6.	Don ' t gild the lily 不要给百合花镀金（不要画蛇添足） 。
	7.	From that story comes the idiom " draw a snake and add feet to it " “画蛇添足”这个成语就是从这个故事来的。
	8.	Don ' t gild the lily 不要给百合花镀金/画蛇添足。
	9.	He over - egged the pudding ! 他这是画蛇添足！
	10.	For such a beautiful girl , to use make - up would be to gild the lily 对一个这样漂亮的女孩来说，化妆有些画蛇添足。

Similar Words：

"画上的猫" Chinese translation, "画上的圣人" Chinese translation, "画上的中间色调部分" Chinese translation, "画上树和水仙花" Chinese translation, "画上圆圈的" Chinese translation, "画圣" Chinese translation, "画圣符的" Chinese translation, "画圣符者" Chinese translation, "画师" Chinese translation, "画师的合同" Chinese translation