A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
承诺
Promised
Nothing in life is promised except death.
除了死，生命中没有什么是有希望的。
Go for it now. The future is no promised now.
现在就开始吧。现在还不能保证将来。
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
现在就开始吧。未来不属于任何人。
A happy ending was promised, and a happy ending was delivered.
一个幸福的结局被许诺，一个幸福的结局被交付。
I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
我想我说我从来没有答应过任何人是错的。我答应我。
The photograph, for all its promised immortality, always hinted at death.
尽管这张照片被认为是不朽的，但它总是暗示着死亡。
I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
我答应会继续下去，但也许继续下去就意味着要先回来。
We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.
我们被许诺过一种更简单的生活，而科技只会让我们的生活变得更复杂。
God has promised to supply our needs. What we don’t have now we don’t need now.
神应许供应我们的需要。我们现在没有的，我们现在也不需要。
I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.
我向自己保证，在找到令我兴奋的工作之前，我不会再工作了。
I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
我通常从那些向别人保证会保守秘密的人那里得到我的东西。
In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.
在医院里，我向自己保证，我再也不会走路了，我要吃得好，每天游泳。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Nobody's coming to get us. The secretary has promised. Everybody's promised. They've had press conferences. I'm sick of the press conferences. For God's sake, shut up and send us somebody.
没人会来抓我们。秘书已经答应了。每个人的承诺。他们开了记者招待会。我讨厌新闻发布会。看在上帝的份上，闭嘴，派个人来。
I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
我知道我们明天没有约定。相信我，我知道。但如果上帝保佑我，让我留下来，我很爱我的生活，这是如此美好的生活。我很想拜倒在他的石阶上，但是我不想搭上第一班车。
A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.
很多人被夸大成伟大的人，但是他们却消失了。我向自己保证我不会成为他们中的一员。
I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
有一天，我得到了上帝的许诺——我要为我的押韵找到理由;从那时到现在，我没有受过什么教育，也没有受过什么教育。
Love is when you find someone better, Yet you stay with the same person you promised to spend forever with.
爱是当你找到一个更好的人，却和那个你承诺永远在一起的人在一起。
Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
今天，我们知道，中央集权和庞大的官僚机构并没有如所承诺的那样，成为促进社会获得更好机会的答案。