Better a broken promise than none at all.

没有实现的诺言好于没有任何诺言。

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A fixed price guarantees a broken promise.

固定的价格就是保证要背叛承诺。

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Many a broken promise has left a broken heart.

许多毁约使人碎心。

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It was not too long ago a 40-mpg car looked like the Geo Metro miserable, scandalous, slow, a broken promise of a car.

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He said any retreat in the Budget - later that month - from the government's aid pledge would be a "broken promise".

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Peers backed a motion from former Labour justice minister Lord Bach, which "regretted" the coalition had broken a promise on exemptions.

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