And that brings us to the idiom gild the lily.

这就引了“gild the lily（添足）”这语。

If I " gild the lily, " I add some unnecessary decoration to something already beautiful.

gild the lily的意思在本已美丽的东西上增添了一些不必要的装饰。

That would be gilding the lily.

那就“添足”。

We gild the lily anytime we try to improve something that is already excellent.

每当我们试图改进已经很色的东西时，我们都在添足。

These days we just say " gild the lily."

如今，我们只说“gild the lily”。

The website says that " gild the lily" comes from Shakespeare.

该网站称，“gild the lily”一词自莎士比亚。

And while it was beautiful, it was truly gilding the lily.

虽然它很漂亮，但它真的添足。

She's just gilding the lily when she wears makeup.

她化妆就在添足。

And I'm not going to gild the lily.

我不会添足。

But these two separate examples have been blended together over time, and today we have the blended phrase to gild the lily.

但这两独立的例子随着时间的推移被融合在一起，如今我们有了这融合后的短语——“给百合花镀金” 。

I'm afraid the term " Friend" Would be gilding the lily.

恐怕" 友谊" 这词有点添足。

Perhaps most famously, this is where we find the earliest version of the maxim, to gild the lily.

最著名的例子之一，就在这里我们发现了最早版本的格言：“给百合花镀金”。

John then has a second coronation for himself in order to be re-crowned as king, and that's the context for this early use of the maxim to gild the lily.

约翰随后为自己举行第二次加冕仪式， 以重新被册封为国王，这就这句早期使用“给百合花镀金” 这句格言的背景。