In the case of life insurance, they developed actuarial tables that require a collecting of statistics.

就人寿保险来说，还需要开发出精准的表格,这需要收集很多统计数据。

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So, they started to do collecting of data on mortality and they developed something called actuarial science, which is estimating the probability of people living.

他们开始收集死亡率的数据,并且发展出精算学,用来估算人在各年龄段死亡的概率

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The real insurance industry, as I mentioned before, began in the 1600s with the invention of probability theory and with the invention of life tables for-- the invention of actuarial science; but, it grew slowly.

正如我刚才所提到的,真正的保险始于17世纪,这得益于概率论,寿命表以及,精算学的产生,但是,它的发展很缓慢

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