尤其是和英国的人寿保险业。 这是一个历史非常悠久的行业，可以追溯到18世纪中期。

And also particularly with the life insurance industry in Britain, which is very old, goes back to about the middle of the eighteenth century.

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银行业从科学中借鉴经验的历史由来已久，例如天文学家埃德蒙·哈维在17世纪就为人寿保险业编制了死亡率表格。

Banking has a long history of borrowing ideas from science - astronomer Edmund Halley was constructing mortality tables for the life assurance industry back in the 17th Century.

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事态的恶性蔓延导致了英国议会对保险业的干预，英国1774年的《人寿保险法》就是在这种背景下产生的，后人熟知的关于投机的法案亦同时得以生效。

The widespread abuse led to the United Kingdom Parliament intervening and passing the Life Assurance Act 1774. This is still in force and is commonly known as the Gambling Act.

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