Insurance salesman

时间：2007-04-14 05:49:38

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Three Insurance salesman were sitting in a restaurant boasting¹ about each companies' service.

The first one said, "When one of our insured² died suddenly on Monday, we got the news that evening and were able to process the claim for the wife and had mailed a check on Wednesday evening".

The second one said, "When one of our insured died without warning on Monday, we learned³ of it in 2 hours and were able to hand-deliver a check the same evening".

The last salesman said, "That's nothing. Our office is on the 20th floor of the Empire State Building. One of our insured who was washing a window on the 85th floor, slipped and fell. We handed him his check as he passed our floor".

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1 boasting
v.有（引以为荣的事物）( boast的现在分词 )；扬言；粗堑石头
参考例句：
He's always boasting about how clever his children are. 他总是自吹他的小孩是多么聪明。来自《简明英汉词典》 This chap likes to exaggerate and is good at nothing but boasting. 这个人言过其实，就会吹牛皮放大炮。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

2 insured
被保险人
参考例句：
Was the vehicle insured? 那辆车上保险了吗？ It turned out he had not insured the house sufficiently. 原来他没有给房屋投足保险。

3 learned
adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词
参考例句：
He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。 In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。