What might lead to a commitment, ? a decision to make a commitment to make the relationship last?

为什么作出承诺，决定承诺维持双方的关系？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So most of the people who are here at the Kennedy School have a commitment to public service,

肯尼迪学院的大部分学生有志于公共服务，

肯尼迪学校 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

That's Dean. In this fantasy about the indigenous girls, what you see is a commitment to language and the activity of selling, buying and selling, entirely entwined with one another.

这就是迪安对那些本地女孩的幻想，你们从这语言中看到的是一个买卖东西，和相互眼神交汇的行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

the quality of spirit than I am even correctness of doctrine, is it a high-quality commitment to service to others, are you willing to take a risk, what kind of price are you willing to pay.

多过于教义的准确性，你是否真正投身于对他人的服务中？,你愿意冒险吗？你愿意花多大的代价？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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

I believe religious pluralism has three dimensions: No. 1, respect for people's religious identities ; including people with no religious identities; No. 2, positive relationships between different people ; of different religious communities; and No. 3, a collective commitment to the common good.

我认为宗教多元主义分为三个层面：,第一是对人们不同的宗教身份的尊重,包括对无宗教信仰的人的尊重;,第二是来自不同宗教社区的,不同人间的良好关系;,第三是共同致力于公共利益。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选