The promotion he had been promised failed to materialize.

答应给他晋升的许诺未能实现。

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A decision has been promised before the summer.

在这个夏天之间，他们承诺会做出决定。

youdao

The daughter, still young, has not yet been promised in marriage.

其女尚幼，未许字人。

youdao

The Americans this time should change their policy, the change which we have been promised by President Obama."

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

And this embarrassing episode is just the beginning of a sequence of embarrassing events that will occur as the Israelites move from Egypt towards the land that's been promised to them.

这令人尴尬的一幕只是,一系列尴尬事件的开始,这些都将发生在他们从埃及到应许之地的路上。

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We want to note something about the particular people who inhabit this dinner party that Socrates and Glaucon have been promised.

我们想要点出,一些特别突出的人物,他们存在于,苏格拉底及，Glaucon，受邀的晚宴之中。

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We have been promised them for 20 years and now we have something on the ground.

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But that bill has long been promised and it's not clear when it will appear.

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Finally, I could see some of the benefit that had been promised so ostentatiously.

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