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单词 gild the lily
释义

gild the lily

try to improve what is already beautiful or excellent
锦上添花。
[ORIGIN: misquotation, from 'To gild refined gold, to paint the lily; to throw perfume on the violet, ... is wasteful, and ridiculous excess'(Shakespeare's King John vi ii. 11.).]

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