喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture insurance as a deal against bad luck: you pay a little, regularly, into a shared pot, and in return the pot pays your big bill if something bad happens — so a disaster you cannot afford alone is shared and .

可以想成「一份對抗壞運氣的約定」：你平常固定繳一小筆錢進一個共同的池子，換來一個承諾——萬一出事（意外、生病），這個…更多收起可以想成「一份對抗壞運氣的約定」：你平常固定繳一小筆錢進一個共同的池子，換來一個承諾——萬一出事（意外、生病），這個池子幫你付那筆你一個人扛不起的大帳單。核心畫面比較像「先付小錢，把無法獨力承受的風險分攤掉、緩衝掉」。insurance 的其他意思，都是從這份「保障約定」往外延伸：做這門生意、你繳的那筆錢、以及任何能替你擋災的東西。

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

insurancenoun/ɪnˈʃɔː.ɹəns/

  • 1

    A means of indemnity against a future occurrence of an uncertain event.

    • The car was totalled, but fortunately I had insurance.
    • In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
  • 2

    The business of providing insurance.

    • After five years in banking, I switched to insurance.
  • 3

    Any attempt to forestall an unfavorable event.

    • The sky was clear, but I took my umbrella for insurance.
  • 4

    blackjackgamesA bet made after the deal, which pays off if the dealer has blackjack.

    • I only take insurance if the count is right.
  • 5

    An insurance policy.

    • "The children need to get back to some level of normalcy and their families can certainly use some respite to deal with things such as insurances, licences and other things they have lost," he said.
  • 6

    A company providing insurance policies; an insurer.

    • 'They don't say so yet, but the suggestion is incendiarism. […]' 'Why should they think anything wrong?' 'These insurances go a lot by the fire brigade report. I suppose the officer in charge has suggested something.'

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。