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不要给百合花镀金/画蛇添足。Don't gild the lily.

不要画蛇添足。Don't paint the lily.

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对此发表评论无异于画蛇添足。Comment upon this would be to paint the lily.

螺旋桨喷漆真的是画蛇添足吗？Whatkind of painting should the propeller use?

这就是“画蛇添足”的故事。That’s the story of "Draw a snake and add feet to it."

可以回答，最后那个画蛇添足的人没喝到酒。The man who added a feet for the snake had not drank the wine.

对一个这样漂亮的女孩来说，化妆简直就是画蛇添足。For such a beautiful girl to use make-up would be to gild the lily.

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“画蛇添足”这个成语比喻做了多余而不恰上海英语口译当的事，反而把事情弄糟了。This idiom refers to ruining a venture by doing unnecessary and surplus things.

它避免了你编写代码时从头再来和对功能的画蛇添足，减少了代码的反复研究和调试。It limits back-tracking and gold-plating and it reduces code-study and debugging.

说完，这人就把酒喝了。画蛇添足的人却失去了到手的酒。With these words he drank the wine , The one who added legs to the snake lost his wine.

时间盒可以很好地防止完美主义、画蛇添足和拖延。Timeboxes serve as the perfect hedge against perfectionism, gold plating and procrastination.

只有当你自作聪明，揠苗助长，画蛇添足时，你与大自然的和谐才会受到伤害。Only if you do the extra and harmful thing to it, the harmony between you and nature will be hurt.

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女性群体和零食的关系，已被作家们反复吟咏多次了，这里就不画蛇添足了。Female groups and snacks relations, has been writers repeatedly intoned times, there is no gild the lily.

“对比法”最忌讳的就是“画蛇添足”、重复使用。" Antitheses " most those who abstain from is " ruin the effect by adding sth superfluous " , repeat use.

当有人过分做事有破坏一个东西的危险的时候，中国人就会说“画蛇添足”了。DON'T paint a snake with legs, the Chinese will say, when someone is in danger of spoiling something by overdoing it.

然而，在一部本没有浓郁中国背景的影片中，这些语言有些画蛇添足。However, this might be unnecessary and might look farfetched in a story that had no strong Chinese background originally.

但是，如果决策者担心他们画蛇添足，那么他们也就会快速的纠正。But if policymakers fear they have added legs to the snake, they will lift these measures as quickly as they imposed them.

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宏比普通的Lisp程序难写，不该用的时候用就是画蛇添足。Macros are harder to write than ordinary Lisp functions, and it's considered to be bad style to use them when they're not necessary.

说对不起，说感到抱歉的原因，承担所有责任。别偷工减料或画蛇添足。然后大家都重新开始。Say you're sorry, say why you're sorry, and take all the blame. No less. No more. Then you both get to make the freshest of fresh starts.

实际上老款的尾部造型已经很成功了，这让新福克斯的设计师有了画蛇添足的忌讳。In fact the old section of the tail of the model has been very successful, so this has been the architect of the new Fox superfluous taboo.