Ideally, life insurance is insuring people-- or fire insurance is insuring people-- against independent events, so it's not the fire of London.

理想状态下,人寿保险,或者是火灾险,承保的对象都是独立事件,伦敦大火的例子不在讨论范围

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Maybe not the biggest one, but there was one when I was... I hadn't long been in the job.

可能不是最大的一次，但是有一场火灾，当我……当时我刚工作不久。

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It's not going to burn any other houses down since it's just completely independent of anything else.

由于火灾是独立事件,他的房子着火了并不会烧毁别人的房子

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They will only put it out if it's a fire in the home of a subscriber or if it starts to spread and to threaten the home of a subscriber.

他们只扑灭发生在会员家里的火灾,或者是即将蔓延到他们会员家里的火灾。

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Not at the same time, but the reason we have any written evidence at all is that there was some kind of conflagration that produced a fire that baked clay into pottery.

虽然不是在同一时间,不过我们能发现这些可读记录,全靠这些意外的火灾,将那些粘土烧制成了陶器

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we went to a fire in the West End

我们去救发生在伦敦西区的一场火灾，

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An insurance policy--the concept is very simple, we could talk about fire insurance or life insurance.

保单的概念其实很简单，我们可以谈谈火灾保险，或者人寿保险。

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Some people date fire insurance with the fire of London in 1666.

有些人将火险的历史追溯到,1666年的伦敦火灾

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Anyway, the person wrote-- he was talking about fires and was proposing that people should pay 1% of the value of the home every year into a fund and then the fund would be used to replace the home if it burned down.

反正,这人写道...,他当时是讨论火灾,并提出,人们应该每年将自己房屋价值的1%的金额,交给一个基金会,那么如果有房子烧毁了,基金会就可以用这笔钱来重建它

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Can you describe the biggest fire you remember?

你能描述一下你记忆中最大的一场火灾吗？

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