In this worldview, institutions--human institutions evolve only slowly over time and cannot be altered by abrupt human interventions.

在这个世界观里,制度尤其人文制度,发展得非常缓慢,而且不会被突然的人为干预改变

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We have kind of a slowing economy either because of that or because the economy kind of slows every once in a while.

我们的经济发展缓慢或者因为,上述原因或者因为我们的经济,偶尔陷入缓慢发展的泥潭。

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The South, hot, slow, long vowels, great storytellers, and so on.

南方就是,气候炎热,发展缓慢,长元音,故事大王,诸如此类

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I think the reason that it grew slowly was that insurance is a very sophisticated concept.

我认为之所以导致缓慢发展在于,保险学是一个非常复杂的概念

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Although, I said, insurance was effectively discovered or invented in the 1600s, it has been slow to grow because they didn't have the well-defined-- all of the inventions yet.

尽管我说过，保险实际上,是在17世纪的时候被发现或者发明的，但它的发展非常缓慢,因为人们无法确切定义-,这种被发明出的东西。

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The real insurance industry, as I mentioned before, began in the 1600s with the invention of probability theory and with the invention of life tables for-- the invention of actuarial science; but, it grew slowly.

正如我刚才所提到的,真正的保险始于17世纪,这得益于概率论,寿命表以及,精算学的产生,但是,它的发展很缓慢

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