A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
承诺
Promise
I'll give you my heart but you got to promise me you'll hold me touch me love me way past forever.
我会把我的心给你，但你必须答应我，你会抱着我，抚摸我，爱我，直到永远。
The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
布朗的决定所设想的平等教育机会的承诺仍然没有实现。
You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.
你不能靠别人的承诺生活，但如果你对别人的承诺足够多，你就能独立生活。
With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
在一个封闭的环境中，有摩擦的可能。这就是戏剧的来源。
I never promise anything. I don't promise anything to my mum. I don't promise anything to the supporters.
我从不做任何承诺。我什么也不答应我妈妈。我不向支持者做出任何承诺。
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
关于外太空计划，我只能向你保证一件事——你的税收将会更多。
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
至于印第安人，他们的指导原则是，只要他们让开，就答应他们任何事情。
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
不偏不倚——无法从支持争议双方中看出任何个人利益的希望。
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
我答应做一个优秀的丈夫，但请给我一个妻子，她像月亮一样，不会每天出现在我的天空。
One of the things that will always be inevitable is change... full of both vague uncertainty & brilliant promise.
改变总是不可避免的……充满了模糊的不确定性和辉煌的希望。
In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
在商业中，文字就是文字;解释就是解释，承诺就是承诺，但只有表现才是现实。
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
我们对孩子们的承诺应该是:如果你在学校表现好，我们会为你支付大学学位。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.
我们将信守社会保障的承诺，采取负责任的步骤来加强它，而不是把它交给华尔街。
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
正是因为它所承诺的权力感，邪恶才常常吸引弱者。
Not keeping a promise is the same as lying!
不遵守诺言就等于说谎!
It’s difficult to turn from the promise of retribution. Even if it’s the barest promise.
要放弃惩罚的承诺是很困难的。即使是最简单的承诺。
The only promise of childhood is that it will end.
童年的唯一希望就是它会结束。
We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.
我们原不是亚伯拉罕的祖宗，也不是要传这应许的。这应许本是属于我们的，却不像亚伯拉罕的。