The goldsmith might also write notes promising so much gold and not promising the return of any particular item of gold.

这个金匠会写下票据，保证归还一定数量的金子，但是不保证归还某个特定的金器。

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Too many promising ideas on paper never become anything more than... promising ideas on paper.

太多的纸上谈兵也只能成为…纸上谈兵。

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Instead of mocking he began to promise, and in a little while he was promising everything that his rival was promising, and a good deal more.

他不再嘲笑，转而开始承诺；眨眼之后，他就在那许出其对手许出的所有承诺，还许出更多其对手没有许出的诺言。

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In New York, Roosevelt made a major speech promising to continue the work of his administration if he was re-elected.

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The goldsmith might also write notes promising so much gold and not promising the return of any particular item of gold.

这个金匠会写下票据,保证归还一定数量的金子,但是不保证归还某个特定的金器

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So that's promising. We did, in fact, see red in our spectrum, and it turns out that that's exactly the wavelength that we see is that we're at 657 nanometers.

这是可能的，事实上，我们在光谱里看到过红色,结果它就是我们看到的在657纳米处的波长。

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That's because internal knowledge allows companies to more readily identify the most promising research areas, which in turn allows them to select the most promising research partners.

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Finally, it tried to win over more moderate teachers by promising a review of testing, even pre-empting its conclusions by promising to slim down the tests in future years.

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Rather than promising to print money until the economy starts to recover, a rather vague concept, the Fed is now promising to ease until one of two things happens: the unemployment rate falls below 6.5 percent or the inflation rate rises above 2.5 percent.

FORBES: Federal Reserve Takes Another Step Toward Rule-Based Monetary Policy