In the following year, the deficiency was made good, by borrowing upon annuities for lives, at fourteen per cent.

次年， 通过终身年金借款弥补了 14% 的不足。

In France, a much greater proportion of the public debts consists in annuities for lives than in England.

在法国，与英国相比，终身年金占公共债务的比例要大得多。

In the reign of queen Anne, money was, upon different occasions, borrowed both upon annuities for lives, and upon annuities for terms of thirty-two, of eighty-nine, of ninety-eight, and of ninety-nine years.

在安妮女王统治时期，金钱在不同的场合被借入终身年金和三十二岁、八十九岁、九十八岁和九十九岁的年金。

Annuities for lives have occasionally been granted in two different ways; either upon separate lives, or upon lots of lives, which, in French, are called tontines, from the name of their inventor.

有时会以两种不同的方式授予终身年金；要么基于单独的生命，要么基于许多生命，在法语中，根据发明者的名字将其称为联合养老保险。

In 1691, an act was passed for borrowing a million upon annuities for lives, upon terms which, in the present times, would appear very advantageous; but the subscription was not filled up.

1691 年通过了一项法案，为终身年金借入 100 万美元，其条件在当今看来非常有利；但订阅未满。

But if, by advancing their money, they were to purchase, instead of perpetual annuities, annuities for lives only, whether their own or those of other people, they would not always be so likely to sell them with a profit.

但是，如果他们通过预付资金购买终身年金，而不是购买永久年金，无论是他们自己的还是他人的，他们就不会总是很可能出售它们获利。