In extreme cases, excessive water consumption can even be fatal, if it causes your blood concentration of sodium to fall too low.

在极端情况下，如果过量饮水可以导致你血液中钠的浓度过低，从而丧命。

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Perhaps she was afraid I might have inherited the fatal ingenuousness of her sister, Miriam, my mother, who died in a concentration camp in Poland, having been handed over to the Gestapo by her so-called "protector".

NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'