一篇关于画蛇添足的英语作文【一】
在很久很久以前的楚国，有一个人家里要举办祭祀，他请了不少人来帮忙，在祭祀结束之时，这个人拿出一壶酒作为报酬送给那些来祭祀的人，帮忙的人十分高兴。
当那些人捧着那壶酒准备分时，一个满脸胡子壮汉的人说：“主人给我们的这壶酒，我们所有人分着喝是不够的，但如果一个人喝的话，就正好，我提议，大家在地上比赛画蛇，先画好的人就能喝着壶酒。”大家觉得这位壮汉言之有理，于是便异口同声的答应了。
人们一个个摩拳擦掌，都想要赢得比赛，哪到哪壶酒，就在这时，以为不喝酒的人（裁判），一声令下，大家便飞速地画起了蛇，时间一分一秒的过去了，一个身材矮小的中年人终于把蛇画好了，他十分笃定的拿起了哪壶放在地上的酒，这个人左手拿酒，右手举着树枝继续画蛇，他变画边说：“你们画的太慢了，我还能为蛇添上脚！”但这个人还没有为蛇添完脚，另一个人就已经把蛇画完了，他送矮个子手中夺过酒壶，严肃地说：“你这个人真没常识啊，蛇本来是没有脚的，但你却为它添上了脚，这真是不可理喻。”这个人说完便拿起酒壶，咕咚咕咚得把里面的酒一饮而尽了。这个小个子只能眼睁睁的看着别人喝掉了原属于自己的那壶酒，他欲哭无泪。
这个身材矮小的人，最终因为他的骄傲为蛇添上脚而失掉了哪壶酒。
这个故事告诉我们蛇本来没有脚，先画成蛇的人，却将蛇添了脚，结果不成为蛇。后遂用画蛇添足，比喻节外生枝，多此一举，反而坏事。明人罗贯中《三国演义》第一百一十回：“张翼谏曰：‘将军战绩已成，威声大震，可以止矣，今若前进，倘不如意，正如画蛇添足也。’告诉人们做任何事都要实事求是，不卖弄聪明，否则非但不能把事情做好，反而会把事情办糟。
一篇关于画蛇添足的英语作文【二】
One day a crow stood on a branch near his nest and felt very happy with the meat in his mouth. At that time, a fox saw the crow with the meat, so he swallowed and eagerly thought of a plan to get the meat. However, whatever the fox said to the crow, the crow just kept silent. Until the fox thought highly of the crow's beautiful voice, the crow felt flattered and opened his mouth to sing. As soon as the meat fell down to the ground, the fox took the meat and went into his hole.
有一天,一只乌鸦站在窝旁的树枝上嘴里叼着一片肉，心里非常高兴。这时候，一只狐狸看见了乌鸦，馋得直流口水，非常想得到那片肉。但是，无论狐狸说什么，乌鸦就是不理睬狐狸。最后，狐狸赞美乌鸦的嗓音最优美，并要求乌鸦唱几句让他欣赏欣赏。乌鸦听了狐狸赞美的话，得意极了，就唱起歌来。没想到，肉一掉下来，狐狸就叼起肉，钻回了洞
一篇关于画蛇添足的英语作文【三】
Long long ago, several people had a jar of wine among them and all of them wanted to drink it by himself. So they set a rule that every one would draw a snake on the ground and the man who finished first would have the wine. One man finished his snake very soon and he was about to drink the wine when he saw the others were still busy drawing, so he decided to draw the feet to the 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?" The story of "Draw a snake and add feet to It." tells us going too far is as bad as not going far enough.
古时几个人分一壶酒。他们都想独自喝完那壶酒，所以就定了一个规矩：每人在地上画一条蛇，谁画得最快，这壶酒就归谁。有一个人很快就把蛇画好了。他正打算喝这壶酒时，看见别人都还在忙着画，就决定给蛇再画上几只脚。结果，他的蛇脚还没加完，另一个人已经把蛇画好了。那人一下把酒壶夺了过去，说："有谁见过长脚的蛇?"。这个故事告诉我们这样的道理：做得过分和做得不够都是不对的。
