She found that there was a lot of resistance to the purchase of life insurance in the nineteenth century.

她发现19世纪的人们,对购买寿险有很强的抵触情绪

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What it does for him is allow him to buy his aunt this symbol of a middle-class American domesticity, and he is a happy participant in this new purchase.

这让他能够给阿姨,买这个美国中产阶级家庭生活的象征物，而他也很高兴能这么做。

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