And that brings us to the idiom gild the lily.

这就引了“gild the lily（画蛇添）”这个习语。

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

该网站称，“gild the lily”一词自莎士比亚。

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

gild the lily的意思是在本已美丽的东西上增添了一要的装饰。

That would be gilding the lily.

那就是“画蛇添”。

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

每当我们试图改进已经的东西时，我们都是在画蛇添。

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

她化妆就是在画蛇添。

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

虽然它漂亮，但它真的是画蛇添。

These days we just say " gild the lily."

如今，我们只说“gild the lily”。

And I'm not going to gild the lily.

我会画蛇添。

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

恐怕" 友谊" 这个词有点画蛇添。

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，就是在这里我们发现了最早版本的格言：“给百合花镀金”。

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

但这两个独立的例子随着时间的推移被融合在一起，如今我们有了这个融合后的短语——“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，这就是这句早期使用“给百合花镀金” 这句格言的背景。