Whether she is excessively stupid or excessively kind, the mother-vireo has certainly won for herself no end of ridicule by allowing the cowbird to deposit a stray egg in the exquisitely made, pensile nest, where her own tiny white eggs are lying and though the young cowbird crowd and worry her little fledglings and eat their dinner as fast as she can bring it in, no displeasure or grudging is shown towards the dusky intruder that is sure to upset the rightful heirs out of the nest before they are able to fly.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-2》
Daydreaming thus masked as the truth. --------------------------------------------------------------- Environmental maladjustment: Case 10. incongruity between Boy, age 14 yrs. supernormal ability and home conditions. Innate characteristics: nervous, active, dramatic type. Stimulants: excessive use of coffee. Mental habit-formation. Delinquencies: Mentality: Lying excessive.英文原著 · 《Pathology of Lying》
I have supposed some check to the supply of the cotton machinery in this case. If there was no check whatever, the effects wold show themselves in excessive profits and excessive wages, without an excess above the cost of production.英文原著 · 《The Nature of Rent》
Excessive thyroid secretion, as in thyrotoxicosis from functioning adenomata, and excessive thyroid feeding, cause all the phenomena of Graves' disease except the exophthalmos and the emotional facies (Figs. 15 and 23). The ligation of arteries, the division of its nerve supply, or the excision of part of the gland, may reverse the foregoing picture and restore the normal condition. The patient notes the effect on the second day and often within a week is relatively quiescent. On the contrary, if there is thyroid deficiency there results the opposite state, a reptilian sluggishness.英文原著 · 《The Origin and Nature of Emotions》
Identical physical and functional changes in the organs of the kinetic system may result from intense continued stimulation from any of the following causes: Excessive physical labor, athletic exercise, worry or anxiety, intestinal autointoxication, chronic infections, such as oral sepsis, tonsillitis, and adenoids; chronic appendicitis, chronic cholecystitis, colitis, and skin infections; the excessive intake of protein food (foreign protein reaction); emotional strain, pregnancy, stress of business or professional life-- all of which are known to be activators of the kinetic system.英文原著 · 《The Origin and Nature of Emotions》
My pumpkin's throwing up because Halloween encourages excessive consumption of refined sugar at a time when obesity rates are sky high.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
She called Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited "Excessively kitsch." Kitsch is excessive! That's the point!美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Why'd you've to blind them? It seems a bit excessive, you know?美剧 · 《Lie to me》
I think it's excessive Internet use in general, excessive video gaming, I think it's excessive Internet use in general, excessive video gaming,演讲 · 《The demise of guys ~ Philip Zimbardo》