insurance

1. N-VAR Insurance is an arrangement in which you pay money to a company, and they pay you if something unpleasant happens to you, for example, if your property is stolen or damaged, or if you get a serious illness. 保險(xiǎn)

The house was a total loss and the insurance company promptly paid us the policy limit. 房屋被定爲(wèi)全損，保險(xiǎn)公司按保險(xiǎn)限額迅速賠付了我們。

2. N-VAR If you do something as insurance against something unpleasant happening, you do it to protect yourself in case the unpleasant thing happens. 預(yù)防措施

Attentive proofreading is the only insurance against the kind of omissions described in this section. 仔細(xì)校對(duì)是避免本節(jié)提到的那種遺漏問題的惟一預(yù)防措施。