Those challenges included an economic downturn, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and a promise to reform the health care system.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

The covenant also entails God's promise to restore the rhythm of life and nature and never again to destroy the earth.

诺亚之约，使上帝必须信守自己的诺言,重新恢复人类和自然的秩序，永远不能再毁坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It consists of a promise to pay, usually denominated in currency, and there are both long-term and short-term debt instruments.

是一种付款承诺,通常是货币支付形式,有长期债券,以及短期债券

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He told Grant that his men would promise to stay out of the war if permitted to return to their homes.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

So it is my promise to you and it is the huge staff's promise to you that we will absolutely get you through this course and you will have a good time doing so.

所以我对你们承诺，也是所有教员的承诺：,你们绝对能够通过这门课程,并且在课程中度过一个愉快的时光。

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The F.A.O.says that by signing the treaty, governments promise to take steps to guard their ports against ships involved in such fishing.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

And as you read the story, remember its larger context: God's promise to make Abraham the father of a great people through his son, Isaac.

当阅读这个故事时，记住它的大框架：上帝许诺,亚伯拉罕通过他的儿子以撒成为大国之父。

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They promise to take action, if needed, "to safeguard financial stability in the euro area as a whole."

VOA: special.2010.02.12

She represents a power that might enable Milton perhaps someday actually to fulfill, to consummate his much-anticipated poetic promise.

她象征着一种力量,也许有一天那力量可以，使弥尔顿圆满完成他那备受期待的理想诺言。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

President Obama made a campaign promise to begin efforts for immigration reform in his first year in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

You may choose to embrace dualism, reject the idea that the brain is responsible for mental life, and reject the promise of a scientific psychology.

你也可以选择身心二元论,拒绝承认大脑引起心理活动,看低科学心理学的前景

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

However,the people of the Philippines built a statue to honor him for keeping his promise to return.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

She says 3-D televisions promise to bring the intense experience from movie theaters to the home.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

That's something physicalist or dualist can say but and this is not of--to make a good promise they offered earlier, it's not the only view available to physicalists, or for that matter dualists.

物理主义学者或二元论者都可认同,这个观点，但如同他们之前提到的,这并不是物理主义学者眼中,唯一存在的理论，二元论者也是如此。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He said the Confederates must give up their weapons and promise to fight no more.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

So, the goldsmith would sign his name on it saying, I promise to give so many ounces of gold.

所以这个金匠会在票据上签名,保证归还多少盎司的金子

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A resolution is a promise to change or do something different in the coming year.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

According to a time-honored tradition in finance, it says that it's a promise to pay $1, but it's not worth $1 today.

由于资金有时间价值,他说他承诺支付一美元,但在此时此刻它并不值一美元

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It holds promise to greatly improve the abilities of people who have lost both arms.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

The British Government will never promise to pay you 10% more each year because they can't do it.

英国政府永远都不会承诺给你们,每年支付你们高于10%的利息,因为他们根本就做不到

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They promise to make people feel more energetic and think more clearly.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

In Genesis 15,God's promise to Abraham is formalized in a ritual ceremony.

创世纪》15中上帝对亚伯拉罕的应许是通过仪式起效的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Rutherford Hayes kept his promise to serve only four years.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

Suppose you are a naive investor and you say, okay I'm going to invest in companies' paper, which is their promise to pay --their IOU.

假如你是一个菜鸟投资者,想投资于这些公司的债券,债券就是他们的偿还凭证或者说欠条

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But he made a promise to the Philippine people.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

You may say, what audacity for the British Government to promise to pay anything forever.

你会说,英国政府鲁莽地承诺,永远支付利息

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He made me promise to keep his secret.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

But the problem of one's being called to be a great poet is that one may have an inkling or some sense of a promise of future greatness but nothing really to show for it yet.

但是一个人被召唤去变成伟大诗人的问题在于,他可能会有一丝感觉他将来必定是伟大的,但还没有什么能够真正表明这一切。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So yet another threat to the promise is overcome: threat of famine is overcome by the relocation to Egypt.

因此，另一个对承诺的威胁被克服了：,迁移至埃及克服了饥荒的威胁。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选