Insure
[ɪn'ʃɔː;ɪn'ʃʊə] or [ɪn'ʃʊr]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.
(v. t.) Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured.
(v. i.) To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent.
整理:玛米
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [Written also Ensure.] [1]. Make secure, make sure.[2]. Assure, secure against loss, agree to indemnify for loss.
v. n. Underwrite, practise insurance.
黛西手打
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Provide, stabilitate, guarantee, secure, warrant
ANT:Imperil, jeopardize, shake, stake
校對:威拉德
解釋/意思:
v.t. to make sure or secure: to contract for a premium to make good a loss as from fire &c. or to pay a certain sum on a certain event as death.—v.i. to practise making insurance.—adj. Insur′able that may be insured.—ns. Insur′ance the act of insuring or a contract by which one party undertakes for a payment or premium to guarantee another against risk or loss—the written contract called the Insur′ance-pol′icy: the premium so paid; Insur′ancer (obs.); Insur′er one who agrees to pay money to another party on the happening of a certain event.
巴尔德手打
例句/造句/用法:
- Some fanatics among them, to be sure, held that one book, the Koran, was of itself sufficient to insure the well-being of the whole human race, but happily a more enlightened view prevailed. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- These officers said they would take it upon themselves to insure us a cordial reception. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I came personally, Mr. Holmes, in order to insure that you would return with me. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- To insure the attention of the attendant, a tiny electric lamp is by the same action lighted directly in front of her, which acts as a pilot signal to call her attention to the drop. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- After writing the original place it face downward on the pad, and rub it gently with the hand to insure contact at every point. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Why did you insure your life? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Their reason for choosing so unusual an hour for a consultation was obviously to insure that there should be no other patient in the waiting-room. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- MY gratitude will be insured immediately by any information tending to that end, and HERS must be gained by it in time. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- This money was sent down by the waggon, and insured by the carriers at an additional expense of three quarters per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Alignment is insured by a center guide hole through which the type end of the lever passes in striking the paper. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Taking the whole kingdom at an average, nineteen houses in twenty, or rather, perhaps, ninety-nine in a hundred, are not insured from fire. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I am not too much of a poet to neglect business, and The Eunice was heavily insured. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- These dispositions, he said, faithfully sustained, insured the enemy's speedy evacuation of Chattanooga for want of food and forage. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Sea-risk is more alarming to the greater part of people; and the proportion of ships insured to those not insured is much greater. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The function of the floating weight is to automatically keep the stylus in close engagement with the record, thus insuring accuracy of reproduction. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I shall not rest satisfied with merely employing my capital in insuring ships. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I haven't begun insuring yet, he replied. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Wherever names are written, there you will usually find the addressograph in use, saving time and money, guaranteeing 100 per cent accuracy and insuring maximum efficiency. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- With these conductors and pipes must also be furnished manholes, junction-boxes, connections, and a host of varied paraphernalia insuring perfect general distribution. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Also the arrangement of complete stations with steam and electric apparatus and auxiliary devices for insuring their efficient and continuous operation. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Education in accord with nature was thought to be the first step in insuring this more social society. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The air chamber _A_ insures a continuous flow of water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- But it insures accuracy. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The stock is at the risk of the borrower, who, as it were, insures it to the lender; and four or five per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This insures complete and perfect contact and consequent electrical conductivity throughout the entire unit. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- A screw-operated spreader in the center presses the heating element tightly against the entire surface of the shell and insures rapid conduction of the heat from the element to the water. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The first insures hitting the mark; the second keeps the balance required for further action. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Using two bottles in this way insures their being broken in striking the burning body, which would not always occur when only one bottle is used. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
校對:朱莉娅