One of the biggest problems in hierarchies is the excess cost of management and bureaucracy.

等级制度的最大问题之一是额管理成本和官僚主义。

Farmers would ask me things like, " Can I over-repay my loan for next year's loan? " or, " Hey, could I repay my loan a year in advance? "

农民们会问我一些问题比如，“我可以为明年的贷款额还贷吗？”或者“我可以提前一年还贷吗？”

Certainly. And another problem that's very common is over-booking.

当然，另一个很常见的问题是额售票。

So you want your immune system to do its job, but not be an overachiever.

所以你还是要希望你的免疫系统只管做好本职工作，而不要额完成任务。

And let's say this bank over here has a surplus of reserves.

假设银行1 有额准备金。

What they'll do is they'll probably overbook by 3% to 5%.

酒店通常会多预订出3%至5%的额订单。

But that excess insurance has got a lot more expensive.

这种额保更加昂贵。

The eagerly awaited share offering of the British chip designer was heavily oversubscribed.

这家英国芯片设计公司备受期待的股票发行获了严重额认购。

Business has more than lived up to the first half of that promise.

商业已经额实现了它承诺的前一半。

Another technique employed by top students is to do more than the assigned homework.

优等生使用的另一个技巧是额完成规定的家庭作业。

Peter Styles of the European Federation of Energy Traders, a trade body, notes that Spain's scheme stops green-energy generators accruing excess profits to begin with, which will distort the way prices are set in the market.

欧洲能源贸易联合会(一个贸易团体)的彼·斯泰尔斯指出，西班牙的计划从一开始就阻止了绿色能源发电企业获额利润，这将改市场定价的方式。

That's right, Feifei, so for example, I've been on fire this month – I exceeded all my targets at work and earned a bonus for my success!

是的，菲菲，所以举例来说，我这个月就是成绩斐然——工作上我的目标都已经额完成，也因为成功获了奖金。

In per-capita terms, it is believed to have the world's highest rate of deaths, according to a study of excess deaths from all causes by the Financial Times – though Britain may soon overtake it.

英国《金融》一项关于各种原因导致的额死亡的研究显示，按人均计算，西班牙是世界上死亡率最高的国家，不过英国可能很快就会过中国。

In the wake of Lehman's collapse, the spread (or excess interest rate) on junk bonds rose so far that it implied default on a scale not seen since the Great Depression.

雷曼兄弟破产后，随之而来的是垃圾债券的价差(或额利息)上涨，到目前为止，这意味着自大萧条以来最大规模的债务违约上演.

In Spain, where consumers' energy costs have soared, the government wants to seize what it describes as " excess profits" from utility companies to reduce household bills.

在西班牙，消费者的能源支出飙升，政府希望没收公用事业公司所谓的“额利润”，用来减少家庭开支。

This final belief is captured by a squeezed " equity risk premium" , which measures the excess expected return investors require in order to hold risky shares instead of safer bonds.

最后一条体现为“股权风溢价”，它衡量的是投资者持有高风股票而非较安全的债券所需的额预期回。

First, the man at the desk said that the plane was already full because the flight was overbooked, so we couldn't get on.

一开始，窗口的一个人说因为这个航班预定额，已经没座位了，我们不能进去。

The person receiving the shipment may put in a claim for the overcharge'. In this case, Mr. Morehouse, I be in doubt.

收货人可以提出额收费索赔。’莫豪斯先生，我现在有点拿不准。

Sheikh Hasina accused you of treating the bank as your own personal property, and of " sucking blood from the poor" by overcharging.

谢赫·哈西娜指责你将银行视为个人财产，并通过额收费“榨取穷人血汗”。

The idea here is that you can drink all these extra bottles of soda as long as you work out.

它的概念是，只要你运动，你就可以喝下这些所有额的汽水。