However, the promise is often broken quite quickly and people are back into their bad habits within weeks or days.

然而，承诺往往很快就会被打破，人们在几周或几天内就会恢复他们原来的坏习惯。

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Sometimes we have forgotten something or broken a promise, so we need to explain with the word as a beginning.

有时候我们会忘记一些事情或者违背诺言，所以我们需要以话语解释作为开始。

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This task cannot run before all the other tasks have run; otherwise, the promise made to them gets broken.

在所有其他任务运行之前，此任务不能运行；否则，将破坏对这些任务作出的承诺。

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With that she whipped up Microsoft Word and drew herself up a contract including her consideration not to complain about the broken promise unless it was broken.

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