He spoke about the importance and the promise of America's new position in the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

There's in those images, I think, a kind of utopian promise that the familiar, ordinary pleasures of rural life can be recaptured in a new society of plenty.

在这些图片中，我认为有一种乌托邦的希望,对乡村生活熟悉而平凡的快乐的希望,能在一个自足的新社会里重新得到快乐的希望。

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What Milton is primarily interested in in his Nativity Ode is the redemption, the promise of what Christ's Nativity will do at some future point for mankind.

弥尔顿在基督诞生颂歌里最感兴趣的是,救赎，基督诞生后在将来,在将来能为人类做些什么。

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Instead,as May writes in her new book, "America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril and Liberation."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

The points of view, again, are those of the sacred and profane, the soul and the body, the promise of a heavenly mansion, and the reality of a life lived in a foul sty.

这里表达的观点又是关于,神圣与世俗，灵魂与身体，关于住进天国的大厦的许诺，和生活在臭猪圈的现实。

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The promise of the concessional loans further China's investment in the continent, aimed at improving such infrastructure as roads and energy production as well as developing agriculture and undertaking health and education initiatives.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

We're going to look at one example of an episode in which the promise is affirmed--or confirmed, reaffirmed--and an example of an episode in which the promise is supremely threatened.

我们来看一个应许被声明的例子,-或者是被确认，被重申--和一个应许,遭受极度威胁的例子。

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The biggest challenge the Obama Administration faces in keeping that promise is finding a way to involve all Islamist movements in the process, according to Reza Aslan, a University of California associate professor of religion.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

In answer to the promise of the Bishop's heavenly mansion in another life, she claims another sort of house, what she calls love's mansion which is noble itself and which is to be lived here on earth.

在回答主教许诺的在另一个世界,生活在天国的大厦时,她提出另一种房子，称之为爱之屋,那房子自身是高贵的,是在现世存在也可居住的。

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"I was initially surprised by the news, because I usually expect older people, with longer experience in the peace process, but I took President Obama's winning of the prize as a promise for the future, as much as it is for his approach in the past.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

Does he fully intend to obey this command, to annul the covenantal promise with his own hand? Or does he trust in God to intervene? Or is this a paradox of faith? Does Abraham intend faithfully to obey, all the while trusting faithfully that God's promise will nevertheless be fulfilled?

他是否完全打算遵守这个命令，亲手废止,契约的应许？或者，他信任上帝的干涉吗？又或者,这是个信仰的悖论吗？亚伯拉罕打算忠诚地服从，同时,忠实地相信即使如此上帝的应许也会实现吗？

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