If a volunteer promised to gather 300 petition signatures, "299 did not work because 300 was the goal," Harwell says. "You met the wrath of Michelle."

如果志愿者答应要搜集300个请愿签名，那么“299个也不行，因为目标是300个，”哈维尔说，“米歇尔会大为光火。”

youdao

Because you promised me.

因为你曾经答应过我。

youdao

On the wedding day you must to do my groom, because we promised to go into the realm of marriage.

结婚那天你一定要来做我的伴郞，因为我们承诺过要一起走进婚姻的殿堂。

youdao

You cannot answer that, even if I promised to move only along the x-axis, because I think...I don't want to pose this as a question, because I think the answer is fairly obvious to everybody.

即使我保证只在 x 轴上移动,你们仍然无法回答,因为我觉得...我不想将其作为一个问题,因为我认为答案是显而易见的

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And then they'll come in and when they're here, they're promised a wage, which is minimum wage because under the guest worker program you have to meet that.

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