health insurance
health insurance は英検2級レベルの英単語で、「健康保険」という意味があります。発音記号は /hɛlθ ɪnˈʃʊərəns/ です。
健康保険
解説 Definition
病院受診や薬などの費用をカバーする公的・民間の制度を指す名詞。医療費の支援を受けるために加入や条件を確認する際に使う。
Health insurance is a system or plan that helps pay medical costs such as doctor visits, hospital care, and medicine. People often get it through their job, the government, or a private company. The exact coverage depends on the plan.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
まず insurance を「事故や損害のときにお金をカバーしてくれる仕組み」として覚えると、car insurance、travel insurance、life insurance と同じ型で health insurance も理解しやすいです。中心は health そのものではなく、病気や通院にかかる費用面の備え。I have health insurance. / public or private health insurance / covered by health insurance の形でよく出ます。treatment や medicine そのものではなく、それらの費用を支える制度だと押さえると定着します。
Learn `insurance` as one word family: `car insurance`, `travel insurance`, `life insurance`, `health insurance`. That makes this phrase easy to store as one more type in the same set. Common chunks like `have health insurance` and `covered by health insurance` will help it stick.
例文
Health insurance premiums rise every year.
健康保険の保険料は毎年上がる。
You should check what services your health insurance covers.
自分の健康保険がどんなサービスをカバーしているか確認すべきだ。
health insurance の類義語・関連語
対義語
health insurance の語源・成り立ち Etymology
health insurance は health と insurance の複合語です。health は古英語 hǣlþ「健やかさ・完全さ」で whole と同根、insurance は古フランス語由来で「確かにすること」。つまり「健康を金銭面で確かに守る仕組み」です。関連語は healthy、ensure。
This compound joins health and insurance. Health comes from Old English hǣlþ, meaning "wholeness" or "well-being," and it shares a root with whole and healthy. Insurance came through French from a word meaning "to make sure," so the full phrase originally suggests making a person's well-being financially secure.
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