畫(huà)蛇添足

　　畫(huà)蛇添足

　　Draw a Snake and Add Feet to It

　　Several people had a jar of wine among them.

　　All of them wanted to drink it by himself. So they set a rule: every one would draw a snake on the ground. The man who finished first would have the wine.

　　One man finished his snake very soon. He was about to drink the wine when he saw the others were still busy drawing.

　　"How slow you are!" said the man, adding, "I still have enough time to add feet to my snake."

　　However, before he could finish the feet, another man finished and grabbed the jar from him, saying, "Who has ever seen a snake with feet? Yours is not a snake. The wine should be mine!" Then he drank the wine.

　　That’s the story of "Draw a snake and add feet to it." It tells us going too far is as bad as not going far enough.

　　古時(shí)幾個(gè)人分一壺酒。他們都想獨(dú)自喝完那壺酒，所以就定了一個(gè)規(guī)矩：每人在地上畫(huà)一條蛇，誰(shuí)畫(huà)得最快，這壺酒就歸誰(shuí)。

　　有一個(gè)人很快就把蛇畫(huà)好了。他正打算喝這壺酒時(shí)，看見(jiàn)別人都還在忙著畫(huà)，就得意揚(yáng)揚(yáng)地說(shuō)：“你們畫(huà)得好慢呀，等我再畫(huà)上幾只腳吧！”

　　結(jié)果，他的蛇腳還沒(méi)加完，另一個(gè)人已經(jīng)把蛇畫(huà)好了。那人一下把酒壺奪了過(guò)去，說(shuō)：“有誰(shuí)見(jiàn)過(guò)長(zhǎng)腳的蛇？你畫(huà)的不是蛇，這壺酒應(yīng)該是我的了。”說(shuō)罷，就喝起酒來(lái)。

　　這就是“畫(huà)蛇添足”的故事。

　　它告訴我們這樣的道理：做得過(guò)分和做得不夠都是不對(duì)的。

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