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huà shé tiān zú
成 语：画 蛇 添 足
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【解释】：画蛇时给蛇添上脚。比喻做了多余的事，非但无益，反而不合适。也比喻虚构事实，无中生有。
【出处】：西汉-刘向《战国策-齐策二》：楚有祠者①，赐其舍人卮酒②。舍人相谓曰③：“数人饮之不足，一人饮之有余。请画地为蛇，先成者饮酒。”一人蛇先成，引酒且饮之④；乃左手持卮，右手画蛇，曰：“吾能为之足！”未成。一人之蛇成，夺其卮，曰：“蛇固无足⑤，子安能为之足⑥？”遂饮其酒⑦。为蛇足者，终亡其酒⑧。
[注释]①祠（cí）——周代贵族一年四季都要祭祀祖宗，每个季度祭祀都有专门的称呼，春天祭祀叫“祠”。②舍人——指待从宾客，左右亲近的人。卮（zhī）——古代盛酒的器具。③相谓——互相商量。④引酒——拿过酒杯。引，取过来。且——将要。⑤固——本来。⑥子——对人的尊称。安——怎能，哪能。⑦遂——就。⑧亡——失去。
【示例】：将军功绩已成，威声大震，可以止矣。今若前进，倘不如意，正如“～”也。（明·施耐庵《水浒全传》第一百十回）
这也是一则事实，并非做书的人～，为此奇谈。（《花月痕》第五一回）
【近义词】：徒劳无功、多此一举
【反义词】：画龙点睛、恰到好处、恰如其分
【语法】：连动式；作宾语；含贬义
Draw a snake and add feet to it
楚国有一个官员，在春天祭过了祖宗之后，便将一壶酒赏给他的办事人员喝。有人提议：“我们只有一壶酒，肯定不够我们大家喝的，一个人喝倒是绰绰有余。我们每人在地上画一条蛇，谁画得最快，就把这壶酒给他。”大家都同意了。有一个人很快就把蛇画好了。他正打算喝这壶酒时，看见别人都还忙着画呢。他就得意扬扬地说：“你们画得好慢呀，等我再画上几只脚吧！”他的蛇脚还没画完，另一个人 已经把蛇画好了。那人把酒壶夺了过去说：“有谁见过长脚的蛇？你画的不是蛇，这壶酒应该是我的了。”说罢，就喝起酒来。那个给蛇画脚的人没办法，只能懊悔自己的愚蠢。“画蛇添足”这个成语就是从这个故事来的。现在人们用它来说明这么个道理：做的过分和做的不够是一样有害的。
An official of the ancient State of Chu awarded a pot of wine to his men after the ceremony of Spring Sacrifice. One man said, "We have only one pot of wine. It's not enough for all of us but sufficient for one. Let's determine who'll have the wine by drawing a snake on the ground. He who finishes first will have the wine."
The others agreed. Very soon, one man finished his snake. He was about to drink the wine when he saw the others were still busy drawing. He said complacently ,"How slowly you are !I still have enough time to add feet to my snake." But before he finished the feet, another man finished his snake and grabbed the pot from him, saying, "Whoever has seen a snake with feet? Yours is not a snake. So the wine should be mine!" He drank the wine. The man adding feet to the snake had to give in and could only regret his foolishness.
From that story comes the idiom "Draw a snake and add feet to it". Now people use this idiom to illustrate the truth that going too far is as bad as not going far enough.
蛇 snake .......... 添 add ................ 官员 official
酒 wine ............ 同意 agree .......... 夺 grab
愚蠢 foolishness
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