Migration helped create humans, drove us to conquer the planet, shaped our societies, and promises to reshape them again.

移民帮助创造了人类，驱使我们征服了地球，塑造了我们的社会，并承诺再次改变他们的形态。

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They parted with many promises to spend the next afternoon together again.

他们分开时做了许多约定，约好第二天下午再见面。

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Despite not meeting emission-cut promises in Kyoto and failing even to agree on promises in Copenhagen in 2009, negotiators plan to try again in South Africa later this year.

尽管京都议定书的减排承诺没有达到，甚至后来200年的哥本哈根会议干脆没有达成任何承诺，谈判家们还是不遗余力地策划在本年晚些时候在南非进行再次尝试。

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Of course, to do so, Aristide would have to disregard a constitutional prohibition against such a possibility and his repeated promises not to run again -- centerpieces of the Clinton Administration's case that a U.S. intervention in Haiti would lead to democratic rule.

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This split, nearly a century old, has been cracking back open for at least a decade (the post-Sept 11 consensus masked it for a bit, as did the earlier anti-Sovietism) but now promises to come to the fore again with Hagel.

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On that occasion, the government was brought down by none other than Mr Bertinotti, but so long as the centre-left sticks to its programme, he promises not to do it again.

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