insure

英 [?n'???; ?n'???] 美[?n'??r]

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第三人稱單數(shù):?insures;過(guò)去式:?insured;過(guò)去分詞:?insured;現(xiàn)在分詞:?insuring;

1. 在心里豈求安全的感覺(jué)。

insure 投保

in-,進(jìn)入，使，sure,確認(rèn)，保證。引申詞義投保。比較ensure.

insure: insure: [15] Insure and ensure [14] are ultimately the same word. And their common ancestor started out, in fact, as a variant of assure [14]. This came via Old French asseurer from Vulgar Latin *assēcūrāre, a compound verb formed from the Latin prefix ad- ‘to’ and the adjective sēcūrus ‘safe’ (source of English secure and sure).

Anglo-Norman had a variant form, enseurer, which produced English ensure. From fairly early on this had been alternatively spelled insure (using the Latinate prefix in-), but it was not until the 17th century that this version became established in the sense ‘provide cover against loss, damage, etc’ (for which previously the more usual term had actually been assure).
=> assure, ensure, secure, sure
insure (v.): mid-15c., insuren, spelling variant of ensuren (see ensure). Took on its particular sense of "make safe against loss by payment of premiums" from mid-17c. (replacing assure in that meaning). Related: Insured; insuring.

1. "One thing you can never insure against is corruption among your staff."—"Agreed.": “永遠(yuǎn)也防不勝防的就是員工內(nèi)部的貪污腐敗。”——“同意。”

2. Think carefully before you insure against accident, sickness and redundancy.: 在為意外事故、疾病與失業(yè)投保之前一定要考慮清楚。