No health insurance, no life at all. I have a boy in university.

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There's something called "variable life," which refers to a life insurance policy where the policyholder can make decisions about the investment of the money in the whole life policy.

有种保单叫做"可变寿险",作为终身寿险的一种,投保人可以自主选择,在终身寿险上进行多少投资

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She found that there was a lot of resistance to the purchase of life insurance in the nineteenth century.

她发现19世纪的人们,对购买寿险有很强的抵触情绪

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The third thing I was going to report was that sociologist Viviana Zelizer wrote a book about life insurance sales in the nineteenth century.

我要讲的第三件事是,社会学家维维安娜·泽利泽写的一部关于,19世纪寿险销售情况的著作

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In the case of life insurance, they developed actuarial tables that require a collecting of statistics.

就人寿保险来说，还需要开发出精准的表格,这需要收集很多统计数据。

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Life insurance is actually an insurance against one of you dying; it's a very unpleasant topic.

人寿保险实际上是为死亡投保,这是个让人极度不快的话题

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It's a whole life policy that gives the policyholder flexibility over the insurance premiums.

作为终身寿险的一种,它为投保人的保费提供了灵活性

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Life insurance is--what it insures is a beneficiary against the death of an insured.

寿险公司针对被保险人的死亡,向受益人提供保险

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All the sick people will come to you to buy life insurance and they will turn out to have a higher death rate than the population at large.

所有生病的人都会向你购买人寿险,而他们比普通人群,有着更高的死亡率

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They have to pay--the premium has to cover the costs, so it was tough to get someone to buy life insurance even though they really needed it--it was such a good idea for them.

因为保费必须要超过保险公司的成本,因此,尽管寿险很好,人们也需要它,但是真正要说服人们购买,却是很困难的

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She tried to study it and tried to figure out how it was that life insurance became more and more important over that century One of her conclusions was that life insurance seemed to be opposed quite a bit by women, nineteenth century women.

她试着研究这一现象,并试图揭示,在当时寿险的重要性,是如何获得人们的认可的,她的一项研究结论表明,女性似乎对寿险非常抵触,我是指19世纪的女性

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