The whole city burned down, practically, in a terrible fire and fire insurance started to proliferate right after that in London.

大火几乎烧毁了整座城市,紧随着那场伦敦大火,火险订单的数量激增

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Ideally, life insurance is insuring people-- or fire insurance is insuring people-- against independent events, so it's not the fire of London.

理想状态下,人寿保险,或者是火灾险,承保的对象都是独立事件,伦敦大火的例子不在讨论范围

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