| 1. | To talk about the beautiful sunset is to gild the lily 谈论日落之美是多此一举。 |
| 2. | For the beautiful girl to use makeup would be to gild the lily 漂亮的姑娘加上化装,是锦上添花。 |
| 3. | Don ' t gild the lily 不要给百合花镀金(不要画蛇添足) 。 |
| 4. | Don ' t gild the lily 不要给百合花镀金/画蛇添足。 |
| 5. | 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。 |
| 6. | Don t gild the lily 不要画蛇添足。 |
| 7. | Your house has lovely brickwork . don ' t paint it . that would be gilding the lily 你的房子砌得非常好看,不用漆了,再漆实在是多此一举。 |
| 8. | I always think that it would simply be to gild the lily for some health - looking young girls to make up their faces so heavily 我总觉得一些看上去很健康的女孩子施以浓妆实在是多此一举。 |
| 9. | The novel is surely well - written and successful . but to say it is the most popular novel in the past decade is certainly gilding the lily 这本小说的确写得很好,也很成功,但要说它是过去十年间最流行的小说,倒是言过其实了。 |
| 10. | She was an attractive girl before she married , but then her husband gilded the lily by making her wear expensive clothes and she now looks just like all the other rich wives around her 她结婚之前本是位很妩媚的姑娘,但婚后她丈夫要她穿华贵的衣装,过分的装饰打扮,现在她看上去只不过像周围的其他阔妇人一样罢了。 |