• gild the lily 画蛇添足

    21-07-05 画蛇添足,汉语成语,意思是画蛇时给蛇添上脚(paint a snake with feet),后比喻无中生有,多此一举。可以翻译为be completely superfluous,与英文俗语gild the lily意思相近,表示to add unnecessary ornamentation to something beautiful in its own right。 例...

  • 23岁姑娘手抓活蛇看急诊

    18-08-01 Photos of a woman going to hospital with a snake twined around her wrist have gone viral on Chinese social media. 一位姑娘手腕上缠着一条蛇去医院就医的几张照片在中国社交媒体上大火。 The woman in her 20s was bitten by the snake early Sunday morning in...

  • 我的阿姨是条蛇

    16-03-09 The old man longed for children. But he and his young wife had none, so he invited his nephew to live with them. This infuriated his wife, who had a vile temper. When her husband welcomed the young man with great affection, she turned pale with jeal...

  • 属蛇人的性格特征

    16-02-05 Like a deep river, Snake people are usually placid on the surface, but their thoughts and emotions run very deep. Quiet and unassuming, they prefer to work by themselves and are more often in the spotlight for their real and lasting accomplishments...

  • The Neighbour and the Snake

    16-01-05 A snake, having made his hole close to the door of a cottage, inflicted a sever bite on the cottager's little son. So the child died. This caused much sorrow to his parents. The father decided to kill the snake. The next day, on its coming out of it...