Insurance
[ɪn'ʃʊər(ə)ns] or [ɪn'ʃʊrəns]
解釋/意思:
(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.
约翰娜編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:梅齐
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Assurance, security against loss.
編輯:弗吉尼亚
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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.
道格拉斯校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Their freight is much less, and their insurance not greater; and no goods, besides, are less liable to suffer by the carriage. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- To govern a life insurance company, Mr. Steffens argued, was just as much government as to run a city. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The praise of mankind was his swing; philanthropy was his insurance office. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Its price, therefore, besides compensating all occasional losses, must afford something like the profit of insurance. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Edison says: When I shut down, the insurance companies cancelled my insurance. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He also visited the offices of the large public service and insurance companies. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I believe he's going into an insurance business, or something. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- He died when he was only fifty, leaving his wife and children provided for by a heavy insurance on his life. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- 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. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- There was, however, no insurance. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- This machine automatically feeds and addresses public service bills, insurance premium notices and receipts, cards, envelopes, circulars, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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