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.

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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

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His poetic talent, his poetic promise, his poetic ripeness - it hasn't yet burgeoned or made itself manifest.

他的写诗才华，写诗的抱负，诗作的成熟度,-都还没能彰显出来。

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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

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Despite God's promise of land and blessing, things don't look so good at the end of Genesis.

尽管有了上帝的许诺和庇佑，事情在《创世纪》末并不尽善尽美。

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

人家会觉得你没有能力实践承诺。

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He didn't even begin to fulfill what we can think of as his epic promise until he was nearly fifty years old, until he had actually lost the use of his eyes, until he could no longer read, and until he could no longer use a pen to write.

但真正开始实行他要写史诗的愿望的时候,弥尔顿已经将近50岁了，那是他已经几乎,丧失了视力，不能再读书，不能执笔写作。

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