Many people confuse communication with excessive talking. Effective communication is not excess talking. It's actually talking less, saying more.

很多人将有效沟通与过度交谈相混淆。有效沟通不同于过度交谈，事实上它应该少点讨论，多点表达。

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Many of us only begin to see the visual evidence of our drinking habits as we get older and start to carry excess baggage, but excessive drinking can also take its toll beneath the skin.

我们许多人只是在步入老年，开始发体之后才看见饮酒习惯对身体产生的表面的变化。 可是过量饮酒还能产生表皮下的伤害。

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Just two years ago the perfect storm of a decade of excess credit, excessive leverage and uncontrolled expansion by financial institutions precipitated the crisis.

恰在两年前的那个时代，信用卡风暴正盛，过度使用，过度举债以及金融机构对扩张的不加控制，促成了危机。

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As these inappropriately dubbed "fat cats" tuck into modest portions of healthy food, sipping water or smoothies, it becomes clear that their wealth has not inspired excess - or at least not excessive eating.

BBC: Davos 2013: Obesity not a problem for the rich

If your weight is excessive then the implication is that the excess is fat and, of course, people's body composition varies enormously and BMI doesn't know anything about that so it's a very imprecise index when applied to individuals.

BBC: BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing?

Over the 138-year timeframe Mr Taylor finds crisis preceded by the development of excess credit, as in Ireland and Spain today, are more common than crisis underpinned by excessive government borrowing, like in Greece.

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