La palabra del día-"exceso"
exceso (ex-ce’-soh)
(noun) excess
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** 1. Los felices años veinte fueron una decada de exceso y decadencia.**
- The Roaring Twenties were a decade of excess and decadence.*
** 2. Fabiola empacó un exceso de ropa para el viaje. ¡Sólo estaría fuera por dos días!**
- Fabiola packed an excess of clothing for the trip. She would only be gone for two days!*
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12 Answers
These days, you pay a lot for excess baggage on a plane flight.
Hoy en día, paga muchísimo para exceso de equipaje para un vuelo.
Con correciones de Sy: Actualmente (u Hoy en día) uno paga mucho (dinero) por llevar exceso de equipaje para un vuelo.
Siempre he trabajado en exceso y hago lo imposible por evitarlo. Tal vez algún día lo logre.
I've always been a workaholic. I do my best to avoid it. Perhaps I will succeed one day.
I think that when someone uses an excess of perfume that they actually smell worse.
Pienso que alguien realamente huele peor cuando usa un exceso del perfum.
Tiene exceso de equipaje, especialmente si quiere cargarlos en el interior del avión!
She has excess luggage, especially if she wants to load them into the interior of the plane!
Worrying too much will shorten your life.
Preocuparse en exceso acortará su vida.
A veces un exceso de confidencia es peligroso.
Sometimes an excess of confidence is dangerous.
¿Por qué es un exceso de algo es más divertido sión?
Why is an excess of something more fun?
Un exceso de fiesta puede causar un exceso de arrepentimiento.
An excess of partying can lead to an excess of regret.
There should be no excess in charity. No debe haber exceso cuando se trata de caridad.
The man was driving at an excess of 100 mph.
El hombre conducía a un exceso de 100 milas por hora.
Otra Fabiola vió su generosa dotación anual de 1.442.000 euros reducida a unos meros 462.000 euros por año. Y aún hay gente que considera esta cantidad reducida un exceso.
Another Fabiola saw her generous annual dotation of 1.442.000 euros reduced to a mere 462.000 euros a year. And there are still people who consider this reduced amount an excess.
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom..."
El camino del exceso conduce al palacio de la sabiduría
