Those challenges included an economic downturn, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and a promise to reform the health care system.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

The first is, that while God's promise is sure, the manner and the timing of its fulfillment is quite unpredictable.

首先是，上帝的承诺是确定无疑的，但实现的方法和时机却都是不可知的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

She represents a power that might enable Milton perhaps someday actually to fulfill, to consummate his much-anticipated poetic promise.

她象征着一种力量,也许有一天那力量可以，使弥尔顿圆满完成他那备受期待的理想诺言。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He told Grant that his men would promise to stay out of the war if permitted to return to their homes.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

The metropolis, well, it's a place of ambivalence, a place of promise and of threat, of exultation and also of dread.

都市是一个自相矛盾的地方，既有希望，又有威胁，喜悦与恐惧相伴而存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"Standing on the steps of the Capitol will be a man whose story reflects the enduring promise of our land.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

The covenant also entails God's promise to restore the rhythm of life and nature and never again to destroy the earth.

诺亚之约，使上帝必须信守自己的诺言,重新恢复人类和自然的秩序，永远不能再毁坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He said new Security Council sanctions approved in June make clear that international law is not an empty promise.

VOA: special.2010.09.25

So, the goldsmith would sign his name on it saying, I promise to give so many ounces of gold.

所以这个金匠会在票据上签名,保证归还多少盎司的金子

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That is a promise." The new governor of Virginia gave the Republican response to the State of the Union speech.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

So it is my promise to you and it is the huge staff's promise to you that we will absolutely get you through this course and you will have a good time doing so.

所以我对你们承诺，也是所有教员的承诺：,你们绝对能够通过这门课程,并且在课程中度过一个愉快的时光。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The promise came Friday on the third and final day of the Group of Eight summit meeting in L'Aquila,Italy.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

And I promise, this is the last quantum number that we'll be introducing.

我向你们保证，这是我们最后遇到的一个量子数。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

You may give a cold shoulder to a friend who has not kept a promise he made to you.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

You may choose to embrace dualism, reject the idea that the brain is responsible for mental life, and reject the promise of a scientific psychology.

你也可以选择身心二元论,拒绝承认大脑引起心理活动,看低科学心理学的前景

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

As the nation prepared for a presidential election year, the South renewed its promise to defend slavery or leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

So I wasn't under a contract but let's come back and fulfill that promise anyway.

虽然我们没立下合同,但是我们以后会回来履行这个承诺的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And when the system fails, it is my responsibility." President Obama campaigned on a promise of "change we can believe in."

VOA: special.2010.01.23

then a few seconds later he says, "I promise." and something like that.

几秒过后,他说，我答应你。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

In return,he had to promise that the mail would travel from Saint Louis,Missouri, to San Francisco,California, in twenty-five days or less.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

But TEFRA was coupled with a promise by Tip O'Neil and Bob Dole that for every dollar in tax increases government spending would be cut by 3 dollars.

但前提是，欧尼尔和鲍勃·杜尔必须承诺,每增税1美元,政府财政支出须减少3美元。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

The F.A.O.says that by signing the treaty, governments promise to take steps to guard their ports against ships involved in such fishing.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

That's something physicalist or dualist can say but and this is not of--to make a good promise they offered earlier, it's not the only view available to physicalists, or for that matter dualists.

物理主义学者或二元论者都可认同,这个观点，但如同他们之前提到的,这并不是物理主义学者眼中,唯一存在的理论，二元论者也是如此。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They promise to take action, if needed, "to safeguard financial stability in the euro area as a whole."

VOA: special.2010.02.12

Well what can you do? Well you can promise miracles, there's very little control over these sorts of things, you can distort the science, you can lie about what you do and nobody will come after you.

那么你会做什么呢,你可以承诺奇迹,这很难给予控制,你可以歪曲科学,你可以说谎,隐瞒你的作为,也没有人会找你麻烦

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Yet before this week, there were signs of promise of better times ahead for its nine million people.

VOA: special.2010.01.16

There's in those images, I think, a kind of utopian promise that the familiar, ordinary pleasures of rural life can be recaptured in a new society of plenty.

在这些图片中，我认为有一种乌托邦的希望,对乡村生活熟悉而平凡的快乐的希望,能在一个自足的新社会里重新得到快乐的希望。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

President Obama made a campaign promise to begin efforts for immigration reform in his first year in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

His poetic talent, his poetic promise, his poetic ripeness - it hasn't yet burgeoned or made itself manifest.

他的写诗才华，写诗的抱负，诗作的成熟度,-都还没能彰显出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

All Milton has at the beginning of his poetic career is the promise of greatness, the anticipation of a luminous body of English poetry.

弥尔顿在诗歌生涯开始的时候只有,上帝传达给他必将伟大的希望，和必将成为英语诗人中最耀眼的人物的预期。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选