You forced me into visiting him last year, and promised, if I went to see him, he should marry one of my daughters. But it ended in nothing, and I will not be sent on a fool's errand again.

不去，不去，去年你硬逼着我去看他，说什么只要我去看了他，他就会挑中我们的某一个女儿做太太，可是结果只落得一场空，我再也不干这种傻事了。

youdao

There was nothing I could do until I convinced James to let me go to get you and I promised that if it was the last thing I did, I'd get you out of there.

我什么也不能做直到我说服了詹姆斯让我去救你我发誓如果我成功了我一定想办法让你离开那儿。

youdao

Before I promised my good friends, and good if you do not and I had played.

我在我好朋友面前承诺过，如果和好，你就不要和我玩了。

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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Anyone who is skeptical on this point should do the following mental experiment: if I promised to pay 89 percent of the cost of your groceries, would what you buy be different?

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What I worry about, if you look at the national evidence, we're not seeing the progress we were promised and if you look at what people locally say nothing beats the reliable delivery of core services.

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