"Johnsy,dear," said Sue, "will you promise me to keep your eyes closed, and not look out the window until I am done working?

VOA: special.2009.08.01

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。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I promise I'll pay you back tomorrow.

我保证明天就还你。

I didn't 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I promise that what I have told you today is true C cross my heart.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

if you chose Chicago, I will promise you this: Chicago will make America proud and America will make the world proud,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

It's the model of investment and profit that characterized so many of Milton's own early writings, including that promise, you'll remember, to his fellow Englishmen that he would one day produce a work of literature that his countrymen would not willingly let die.

这是一种投资模式和带有很多弥尔顿早期写作特征的收益,它包括了那个诺言，你们应该记得,那个诺言指他说有一天要为自己的追随者们写一篇文学作品,他的同胞们不希望这个诺言落空。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"I promise you this - things are going to return to normal."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

That is, promise that they will do well-- you see this all the time.

例如他们承诺能够获得高额收益率,你时常能听到这种论调

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"On Tuesday,after a year of debate and a century of trying, after so many of you shared your stories and your heartaches and your hopes, that promise was finally fulfilled.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

And your roommate says, "Inside the envelope are facts about this milkshake that if--I promise you it is indeed the case-- if you knew these facts, " you would not drink the milkshake anymore."

而你的室友说，“在信封里面是关于奶昔的事实,如果，我保证里面是事实-,你知道了这些事实，你就不会再喝奶昔了“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And if you don't kill us I'll do my best to protect you.'" Swan has kept the promise, his eyes opened to environmental problems made worse by a warming climate.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Well what can you do? Well you can promise miracles, there's very little control over these sorts of things, you can distort the science, you can lie about what you do and nobody will come after you.

那么你会做什么呢,你可以承诺奇迹,这很难给予控制,你可以歪曲科学,你可以说谎,隐瞒你的作为,也没有人会找你麻烦

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Listen, you promise mesomething, O. K?

VOA: standard.other

They'll think you couldn't fulfill your promise.

人家会觉得你没有能力实践承诺。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

That is a promise that I make to you,". The president did not specifically mention Afghanistan in his talk to the troops, but he is expected to send thousands more service members to fight there.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

Yet despite the false starts, and the trials, and the years of famine, and the childlessness, and the infertility, the seed of Abraham survives, and the promise is reiterated: "I will go down myself with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you back."

但尽管有错误的开始，试验和多年饥荒，断子绝孙和贫瘠，亚伯拉罕的子孙还是得以幸免，许诺被重新申明：,“我要和你同下埃及去，也必定带你上来“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"It is a promise that as long as I am your Commander in Chief, I will only send you into harm's way when it is absolutely necessary, and with the strategy, the well-defined goals, the equipment and the support you need to get the job done,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

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

Promise This-When You be Dying- Some shall summon Me- "And that way in which she says 'when you be dying', that's so classically the way African Americans structure their sentences, with that interesting use of 'be,'" "Maid as Muse" author Aife Murray says writing her book was a way for her to give credit where credit is due - to the unsung men and women whose language and culture enhanced the work of one of America's best-loved poets.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

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

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

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