Let's assume that we know that this thing is going to be paid, so it's a matter of simple time.

我们假设这份承诺会被兑现,这只是时间的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So I wasn't under a contract but let's come back and fulfill that promise anyway.

虽然我们没立下合同,但是我们以后会回来履行这个承诺的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The long-term fiscal challenge is largely a product of promises in our entitlement programs, medicare, medicate and social security that we have made the future generations that we cannot afford to keep.

长期财政挑战很大一部分原因,是我们承诺了很多津贴项目，我们承诺给下一代的,医疗保险和社会保险,而现在我们又没法兑现。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Now given this, the romance frame of Milton's Comus, - we're not surprised actually to see -- even though we don't see at the end her actually getting married, we're not surprised to see the Lady in this speech embracing the form of chastity that promises something like an eventual turn to marriage.

这样看来，弥尔顿《科玛斯》的传奇结构，我们实际上并不诧异看到-,虽然我们没有看到她最终结婚了，我们看到这个演说的女士,拥护承诺像是最终转向婚姻的贞节时,并不感到诧异。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We have to resist excessive commitment to this idea of it being a center, but it is at least not a center which somehow stands outside of itself and is a center only in the sense that it is some remote, hidden, impersonal, distant cause.

我们必须反对对这个观点过多的承诺,这个人为它是中心的观点，但它至少不是一个,以某种方式处于自身之外的中心，而只在某种意义上是中心,比如说，它有些偏僻，隐蔽，客观，遥远。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We are basically committed to each other for sex but it's very hard to make those relationships last a long time because we might not have anything in common, we might not share anything with each other, we might not trust each other, we are not particularly bonded to each other.

我们基本上只有激情的承诺,长时间维持这种关系很困难,因为可能双方没有任何共同点，没有共享的东西，我们可能互不信任，不是特别亲近。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In verse 8, the people solemnly undertake to fulfill the terms of the covenant, so we have at least three of the steps that we find in the Hittite treaties, as well.

诗8中，所有的人庄严的承诺,将履行契约的条款，所以我们至少找了三个步骤,和在Hittite条约中看到的一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He tried to intimidate us too much with his promise of impossible grading so that everyone took the class credit/D/fail, when we all probably ended up with As or Bs.

他经常试着吓唬我们,通过他承诺的不可能的分数等级,所以每个人都虔诚的来上课/D/不及格，当我们几乎都已As或Bs结束时。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选