畫蛇添足

　　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.

　　古時幾個人分一壺酒。他們都想獨自喝完那壺酒，所以就定了一個規矩：每人在地上畫一條蛇，誰畫得最快，這壺酒就歸誰。

　　有一個人很快就把蛇畫好了。他正打算喝這壺酒時，看見別人都還在忙著畫，就得意揚揚地說：“你們畫得好慢呀，等我再畫上幾只腳吧！”

　　結果，他的蛇腳還沒加完，另一個人已經把蛇畫好了。那人一下把酒壺奪了過去，說：“有誰見過長腳的蛇？你畫的不是蛇，這壺酒應該是我的了。”說罷，就喝起酒來。

　　這就是“畫蛇添足”的故事。

　　它告訴我們這樣的道理：做得過分和做得不夠都是不對的。

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