Sometimes, as Nick and I buttoned up a car he'd just brought back from the dead, I'd promise myself Mary Ann and I were over.

有时，当我和尼克收拾完一辆刚刚被他妙手回春的汽车之后，我会向自己发誓要结束我和玛丽安之间的关系。

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I talk to him, hoping I can play games again. I promise him I would control myself and only play half an hour most.

我和他协商，希望我能再玩游戏，我答应他我会控制时间，每天最多玩半个小时。

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I promise to myself, I will forget you and not love you anymore.

我对自己诺言，我将忘记你和不会再爱你。

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Yet despite the false starts, and the trials, and the years of famine, and the childlessness, and the infertility, the seed of Abraham survives, and the promise is reiterated: "I will go down myself with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you back."

但尽管有错误的开始，试验和多年饥荒，断子绝孙和贫瘠，亚伯拉罕的子孙还是得以幸免，许诺被重新申明：,“我要和你同下埃及去，也必定带你上来“

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But I made a commitment and a promise to myself that I was going to stop procrastinating and get all my work done in advance.

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And if you secure benefits for yourself through it, I promise not to ask of them for myself.

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