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文章来源：未知文章作者：enread 发布时间：2012-02-08 03:13 字体： [ ]　

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in the warring states period, a man in the state of chu was offering a sacrifice（祭品） to his ancestors. after the ceremony, the man gave a beaker of wine to his servants. the servants thought that there was not enought wine for all of them, and ¹ to each draw a picture of snake; the one who finished the picture first would get the wine. one of them drew very rapidly. seeing that the others were still busy drawing, he added feet to the snake. at this moment, another man finished, snatched the beaker（烧杯，大口杯） and drank the wine, saying,"a snake doesn't have feet. how can you add feet to a snake?"

this idiom refers to ruining a venture by doing unnecessary and surplus things.

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adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的
参考例句：
this gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。 there is a decided difference between british and chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。