Insurance
[ɪn'ʃʊər(ə)ns] or [ɪn'ʃʊrəns]
解释:
(noun.) promise of reimbursement in the case of loss; paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company.
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解释:
(n.) The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.
(n.) The premium paid for insuring property or life.
(n.) The sum for which life or property is insured.
(n.) A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance.
编辑:梅齐
同义词及近义词：
n. Assurance, security against loss.
编辑:弗吉尼亚
娱乐性解释：
n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
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例句:
- Their freight is much less, and their insurance not greater; and no goods, besides, are less liable to suffer by the carriage. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- To govern a life insurance company, Mr. Steffens argued, was just as much government as to run a city. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The praise of mankind was his swing; philanthropy was his insurance office. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Its price, therefore, besides compensating all occasional losses, must afford something like the profit of insurance. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Edison says: When I shut down, the insurance companies cancelled my insurance. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- They, I suppose, will have to give all kinds of evidence about the smash-up of The Eunice before the insurance money will be paid. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- He also visited the offices of the large public service and insurance companies. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- I believe he's going into an insurance business, or something. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- He died when he was only fifty, leaving his wife and children provided for by a heavy insurance on his life. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He got an insurance map of New York City, and studied the business section from Wall to Canal Streets and from Broadway over to the East River. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- If her crown of life had been an insurance policy, she would have had an opportunity to collect on it the first time she fell. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Its first use was as a symbol in the code by which vessels were graded in the register of shipping kept by Lloyd’s, the originators of marine insurance. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- There was, however, no insurance. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- This machine automatically feeds and addresses public service bills, insurance premium notices and receipts, cards, envelopes, circulars, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
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