Insurance

(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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• 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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