First and most obviously, they are less likely to smoke, drink to excess, abuse drugs or drive too fast.(首先，最明顯的是他們很少抽煙、過量飲酒、濫用藥物和駕駛超速。)

However, just as seemingly healthy measures, such as taking vitamins, can cause damage if done to excess, so did the Greenspan-era Federal Reserve take recession avoidance too far.(然而，正是那些看起來安全的措施，可能會因為被濫用而造成損害，這跟人體適量攝入維生素是一個道理。因此，格林斯潘時代的美聯儲在避免衰退方面走的太遠了。)

Any benefit alcohol provides can be undone by drinking to excess.(超量飲酒不會給你帶來任何好處。)

He drinks to excess.(他嗜酒無度。)

Alcohol is dehydrating to the skin, leading to excess moisture loss which can increase skin dryness.(酒精可以讓皮膚脫水，導致皮膚加劇失水，而讓皮膚更加的干燥。)

This is not an endorsement to drink to excess — large amounts of alcohol will damage your brain — but the occasional tipple may do you some good.(這項研究成果并不代表人們可以酗酒——過量的酒精會傷害你的大腦，偶爾的小酌才對你的身體有所幫助。)

Her spirit was high, though not rough, and qualified by a heart sensitive and lively to excess in its affections.(她的興致總是很高，可并不粗魯，配上一顆在感情上過度敏感和活躍的心。)

Smoking and alcohol abuse are the major causes, but 25 percent of oral cancers appear in people who have never smoked or drunk to excess.(吸煙和酗酒的確是主要病因，不過有25%的口腔癌病人從來不吸煙，也沒有過量飲酒。)

As the photographer commented, look at how green the grass is in some pictures (see those below) : it is evidence of exposure to excess nitrogen.(正如攝影師所說，看看下圖中的草長得如此之綠，不正是接觸過多氮元素的證據嗎？)

We must stop harvesting natural resources to excess and bring them back from the brink of extinction.(我們必須停止過度采伐天然資源，從他們來的地方，帶來了滅絕的邊緣。)