Took me a long time but I promised myself one day I would finish it.

我花了很长时间，但我答应过自己有一天我会完成它。

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I kept my game face on, but I promised myself I would never again abandon my own instincts about a speech.

表面上我一直装出满不在乎的样子，心里却对自己许下承诺，从此不能再忽视自己对演讲的直觉反应。

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At that point, I made the decision to enter the corporate world anyway for growth purposes, but promised myself to keep in mind my passion and pursue it full-time one day.

在那时，考虑到未来的成长，我决定无论如何我都要进入商业世界。于是，我承诺自己要时刻铭记这份激情，并且，终有一天我要奉献我全部的时间去实现它。

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But I promised myself that one day I would punish Fortunato for his insults to me.

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They were coming home from high school but I had no time now for thoughts like that and promised myself a ball in Denver.

她们正从高中放学回家，但我没工夫想那些,想着到丹佛再去一场舞会便是。

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But I promised myself that if we did have to do a significant layoff, I would do everything in my power to make sure that when we did it we also knew where we were going.

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I'm a newbie to this, but the Internet hype machine has promised me a virtual mall to myself.

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