Insurance was invented in the 1600s but it did not proliferate fast, it proliferated only very slowly.

保险学产生于17世纪,但是它的发展速度并不快,我们甚至可以说它发展得很慢

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It sort of opens things up, and we refer to this as the antecedent phrase.

可以说是开启一切,我们可以把它当做先行乐句

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It is the product, the creation of the people or of what we might call, in Jeffersonian language, it is the product of the consent of the governed.

我们可以说它是人民权力的产物,但若用杰斐逊的话讲，我们也可以说它是，统治者们互相默许下的产物。

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The mind is based in, or just is something nonphysical, something nonmaterial, we can call it a mind we can call it a soul we can call it a psyche we typically try to call it a soul.

心灵建立在...或仅仅是非物理的东西,非物质的某种东西,我们可以把它称作心灵,也可以叫灵魂,还可以说是精神,但我们一般用灵魂来命名它

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