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You Bet Your Life（以命相賭）

1. Life insurance is not really betting although it can be compared to it. You pay the money just in case. In this day and age, we think of insurance as a natural thing. If we scrape a fender or injure ourselves at work, we know that there is some sort of payment that we can get through insurance. Of course, we don't get it for nothing; we make payments to the companies. If we don't use the insurance, the companies keep the money.

1、生命保險(xiǎn)不是真正意義上的賭博，雖然它能與賭博相比較，你花了錢以防意外。在今天和這個(gè)時(shí)代，我們認(rèn)為保險(xiǎn)是一件很自然的事。如果我們劃破了皮膚或者在工作中傷著了自己，我們知道通過(guò)保險(xiǎn)我們能獲得某種賠款。當(dāng)然，我們不是無(wú)功受祿，我們給保險(xiǎn)公司付了錢。我們?nèi)绻麤](méi)有使用這項(xiàng)保險(xiǎn)，保險(xiǎn)公司就賺了這筆錢。

2. "Insurance" is the term that we understand today. Some companies are beginning to use the term "assurance”. As a matter of fact, Charles Babbage, over one hundred years ago, felt that "assurance" was a better term. Apparently few others did, because "insurance" has stayed with us until today.

2、“保險(xiǎn)”是我們今天可以理解的一個(gè)詞語(yǔ)。某些公司現(xiàn)在開(kāi)始用“保證”這樣的詞語(yǔ)。事實(shí)上，早在一百余年前，查爾斯先生就認(rèn)為“保證”是一個(gè)更恰當(dāng)?shù)脑~語(yǔ)。顯然很少有別的人這樣認(rèn)為，因?yàn)椤氨ｋU(xiǎn)”這個(gè)詞已經(jīng)伴隨我們至今。

3. How old is insurance? Two hundred years? A thousand? Or is it as old as man? I suppose that would depend upon what you mean. We might say that "insurance" was with us while man was just beginning to develop civilization. One family or tribe might feel that they would be helped if they helped to protect another family or tribe. In this way, both groups got what they needed-protection from enemies. Of course, you and I don't need that kind of protection today.

3、那么“保險(xiǎn)”到底有多久的歷史？?jī)砂倌?？一千年？或者和人類歷史一樣長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)？我認(rèn)為問(wèn)題將取決于你的問(wèn)題的本意到底是什么。我們可以說(shuō)，在人類開(kāi)始發(fā)展自己的文明時(shí)，“保險(xiǎn)”就與人類在一起了。一個(gè)家庭或者部落去幫助了另外一些家族或部落不受侵襲，他們認(rèn)為自己也會(huì)得到幫助。這樣，兩個(gè)集體都得到了他們所需要的東西：防御敵人。當(dāng)然，今天你我都不再需要這種保護(hù)。

4. This system of trading services with each other has been with us for quite a while. The idea of an old age pension is certainly older than you might think. Today you think of social security or some other system. Most people who retire are still able to receive money that they have paid into the system during their working days. The idea of a reward for services like this is quite an old one. The trouble was that the reward was not always given to everyone, nor was it given to those who deserved it most.

4、這個(gè)互相交易服務(wù)體系已經(jīng)伴隨我們相當(dāng)一段時(shí)間了。關(guān)于老年退休金理念的產(chǎn)生比你想象的要早得多。今天，你想到社會(huì)保障系統(tǒng)或其它別的社會(huì)系統(tǒng)。大多數(shù)人退休后仍然能夠拿到錢，這些錢是他們工作期間支付給社會(huì)保障系統(tǒng)的。這種給服務(wù)以回報(bào)的理念是很古老的。問(wèn)題在于：報(bào)酬不是任何時(shí)候給每一個(gè)人，甚至不是給本身最應(yīng)該得到這個(gè)報(bào)酬的人。

5. What happened when man began to move into the cities from the farms? He found that he could no longer support himself by growing his own food. His children and relatives might move away to another city, and there might be no way of earning enough money. Perhaps because of this, the idea of social security and insurance developed. Now insurance companies are near the top of the list of the biggest business in the United States.

5、當(dāng)一個(gè)人從農(nóng)村移居城市時(shí)會(huì)發(fā)生什么事？他發(fā)現(xiàn)，他用自己生產(chǎn)的食品養(yǎng)活自己的日子一去不復(fù)返。他的孩子和親屬可能搬往其它城市，但是那里可能沒(méi)有辦法賺到足夠的錢。也許恰恰因?yàn)檫@些，社會(huì)安全和保險(xiǎn)的思想發(fā)展了。如今，在美國(guó)，保險(xiǎn)公司的名字正名列最大企業(yè)名單的榜首。

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