dié
chuáng
jià

idiom

Meaning of 叠床架屋

叠床架屋 means to pile one bed upon another and build a house on top of a house; (fig.) to make something unnecessarily complicated; redundant; superfluous. Pronounced dié chuáng jià wū.

  • to pile one bed upon another and build a house on top of a house; (fig.) to make something unnecessarily complicated; redundant; superfluous

Definitions & Examples

Zhè
piān
wén
zhāng
dié
chuáng
jià
de
lùn
shù
tài
duō
 
yào
shān
jiǎn
 

This article contains too much redundant discussion that needs to be cut.

Shè
zhè
me
duō
chóng
de
gòu
 
jiǎn
zhí
shì
dié
chuáng
jià
 

Setting up so many duplicate organizations is simply piling redundancy upon redundancy.

de
lùn
zhèng
yǒu
xiē
dié
chuáng
jià
 
tóng
guān
diǎn
shuō
le
hǎo
biàn
 

His argument is somewhat repetitive, stating the same point several times over.

Jīng
jiǎn
gòu
 
miǎn
dié
chuáng
jià
 

Streamline the organizations to avoid unnecessary duplication.