Excess

(noun.) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits.

(noun.) a quantity much larger than is needed.

(adj.) more than is needed, desired, or required; 'trying to lose excess weight'; 'found some extra change lying on the dresser'; 'yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant'; 'skills made redundant by technological advance'; 'sleeping in the spare room'; 'supernumerary ornamentation'; 'it was supererogatory of her to gloat'; 'delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words'; 'extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts'; 'surplus cheese distributed to the needy' .

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• We retired from the debate which had followed on his nomination: we, his nominators, mortified; he dispirited to excess. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Another way to make the composition is to soak over night in cold water best gelatine or glue 1 part, and the excess of water poured off. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The shady retreat furnished relief from the garish day to the primitive man, and the opaque shades and Venetian blinds of modern civilization exclude the excess of light at our windows. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• They would extract good from the excess of evil,[440] and presently France would fall back helpless into the hands of her legitimate masters. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish to riot in the excess of my despair. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• In both cases the sterility is independent of general health, and is often accompanied by excess of size or great luxuriance. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Plants thus serve to keep the atmosphere free from an excess of carbon dioxide and, in addition, furnish oxygen to the atmosphere. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The very excess of our misery carried a relief with it, giving sublimity and elevation to sorrow. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Nor should our citizens be given to excess of laughter--'Such violent delights' are followed by a violent re-action. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and cherished. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• I traced his progress downwards, step by step, until at last he reached that excess of destitution from which he never rose again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Both arise from excess; the one from excess of wealth, the other from excess of freedom. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I am not so ecclesiastical as Naumann, and I sometimes twit him with his excess of meaning. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There was no gratitude for affection past or present to make her better bear with its excesses to the others. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It would have been more than human in them if they had not given way to some excesses of patriotic vanity. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• History can be all things to all men: nothing is easier than to summon the Terror, the Commune, lynchings in the Southern States, as witnesses to the excesses and hysterias of the mob. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In the austere system, on the contrary, those excesses are regarded with the utmost abhorrence and detestation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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