And saying we would get a dog and not following through was pretty much the ONLY thing my parents ever promised that didn't happen in my life so far.

他们口头上答应养狗却没兑现而这差不多是我从出生到现在他们允诺我后唯一没有实现的事情。

youdao

You'll benefit from it, and you'll probably get rid of JDBC almost completely; nobody would argue that's not a good thing.

您将从中受益，也许最终会完全放弃JDBC，没有人认为这样不好。

youdao

But there's a lot of positive foundation in Tal Afar in my view and it would not take much to get that thing back on the right course again.

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