Even more interesting is that the promise of a future reward was enough to make adults choose the smaller portion.

更有趣的是，对未来奖励的承诺足以让成年人选择分量更小的套餐。

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But the problem of one's being called to be a great poet is that one may have an inkling or some sense of a promise of future greatness but nothing really to show for it yet.

但是一个人被召唤去变成伟大诗人的问题在于，他可能会有一丝感觉他将来必定是伟大的，但还没有什么能够真正表明这一切。

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For at least the foreseeable future, the promise of a perfect lie detector remains the stuff of comic book fantasy.

至少在可以预见的未来，完美的测谎机还是只能出现在幻想漫画当中。

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"I was initially surprised by the news, because I usually expect older people, with longer experience in the peace process, but I took President Obama's winning of the prize as a promise for the future, as much as it is for his approach in the past.

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But the problem of one's being called to be a great poet is that one may have an inkling or some sense of a promise of future greatness but nothing really to show for it yet.

但是一个人被召唤去变成伟大诗人的问题在于,他可能会有一丝感觉他将来必定是伟大的,但还没有什么能够真正表明这一切。

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For them, the recent promise of a future EU referendum was good but not good enough.

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But what about the promise of a future job with a lucrative cash bonus?

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Unfortunately, the 9-9-9 Plan has them both running at the same time, with a promise of a future constitutional change.

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