「snake's legs」に関連した英語例文の一覧と使い方 - Weblio英語例文検索

to give a snake legs―add something superfluous 例文帳に追加

蛇足を添える - 斎藤和英大辞典

Sachi (happiness) in the old days was also written as 弓矢 (bow and arrow), and 'chi' in ikazuchi (thunder), mizuchi (mythical aquatic creature having a snake-like body with four legs and a horn) and inochi (life) all are considered to denote tamashii (spirit, soul) or spiritual power. 例文帳に追加

-幸（さち）も古くは弓矢とも表記し、雷（いかづち）・蛟（みずち）・命（いのち）の「チ」は全て、魂（たましい）や霊威を表すといわれている。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

though I have a sharp physical memory that, in the course of it, my underwear kept climbing like a damp snake around my legs and intermittent beads of sweat raced cool across my back. 例文帳に追加

もっとも、議論中の肉感的な記憶、つまり、ぼくの下着がまるで足に巻きついた水蛇のように這い登ってきたあの感覚、背中を断続的に滴り落ちる水滴の冷たい感触は、よく覚えている。 - F. Scott Fitzgerald『グレイト・ギャツビー』

It is found in Buddhist stories; according to "Shaseki-shu," a collection of Buddhist stories compiled in the Kamakura period, a priest without virtue was born again as a hammer-shaped snake living deep in the mountains, and the priest had had a glib tongue while he had not have the eyes of the wisdom nor the hands of the piety nor the legs of the commandment, so Nozuchi he became had only a mouth and did not have eyes nor hands nor legs. 例文帳に追加

また仏教説話中にも取り入れられており、鎌倉時代の仏教説話集『沙石集』には、徳のない僧侶は深山に住む槌型の蛇に生まれ変わり、生前に口だけが達者で智慧の眼も信の手も戒めの足もなかったため、野槌は口だけがあって目や手足のない姿だとある。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス