drawing a snake and adding feet meaning in English
画蛇添足
Examples
- 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。 - Besides , philosophy only has metaphysics and dialectics , so dividing the idealism and the materialism in teaching materials sheerly draws a snake and adds feet to it , this is really defect of being too partial concerning the understan ding of marxist philosophy
再说哲学也只有形而上学和辩证法两大派，因此教材对唯心唯物的划分纯属画蛇添足，而对马克思哲学观的理解也未免失之偏颇！