"We are going to commit all our day hours today to help clean up so that at least whatever we can save, we can save,"
VOA: standard.2009.10.04
So we have many candidates, So we have many candidates, more than just two; or we have not voting, which is related to that actually; and we have choosing your position, the inability to commit to a position.
有多位候选人,实际情况下候选人不只有两个,存在弃权票,这也是很正常的,还有就是候选人,未必能够坚守他的立场
But we obviously can't commit before we find out whether she's free.
但在确定她是否有时间之前,我们肯定没法确定。
What do we want to achieve? We need to punish people who commit electoral offences."
VOA: standard.2009.08.22
Or we've got to stay together for appearance's sake or we'd better stay together because financially it would be a disaster if we don't or all of the reasons other than intimacy and passion that people might commit to each other.
或者为了顾全家庭的脸面,最好还是生活在一起,如果任由关系破裂,经济上对双方是一个灾难,各种原因不解释,惟独不包括亲近和激情,两个人承诺在一起。
to say 'get real.' What is dangerous is to commit "This is extraordinary, to spend a whole lot of money that we might not have on a system that most certainly won't help when the world is changing, when we're facing new threats, where now more and more military experts are saying there are different alternatives."
VOA: standard.2010.04.30
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