| 词汇 | actuary |
| 词源 | actuary. An actuary is a highly skilled statistician who calcu- lates and states insurance risks and premiums, but his or her ti- tle derives from the Latin for clerk, actuarius, for in the Roman army, during Caesar’s time, an actuary was no more than a pay- roll clerk. |
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