The goldsmith might also write notes promising so much gold and not promising the return of any particular item of gold.

这个金匠会写下票据,保证归还一定数量的金子,但是不保证归还某个特定的金器

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So that's promising. We did, in fact, see red in our spectrum, and it turns out that that's exactly the wavelength that we see is that we're at 657 nanometers.

这是可能的，事实上，我们在光谱里看到过红色,结果它就是我们看到的在657纳米处的波长。

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In contrast it looks, prospects don't look so promising for surviving my death of my body if we don't believe in dualism, if we're physicalists.

相反地,如果我们是物理主义者,如果我们不是二元论者,对于肉体死后人不死，就并不那么乐观了。

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He would regard elections as merely exacerbating the tendency to demagoguery where each person seeking office plays shamelessly to the mob promising all manner of things that they know they will not and cannot deliver.

他会视选举不过就是,加剧煽动行为的倾向,每一位寻求官位的人,都会无耻地沦为盗贼,承诺所有他们明知压根儿无法,及不能兑现的政治支票。

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it's over-promising and under-delivering.

是过高的承诺和过低的兑现。

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The other pathway that I think is very promising is now to use stem cell generated cells in culture dishes to use them for high throughput drug screening now we can test thousands of different drugs without killing so many animals.

第二个目标的前景相当广阔,我们可以用干细胞,在培养皿中大量繁殖各种细胞,用于大剂量的药物试验,让你无需屠戮动物,就能进行各种药物试验。

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Well,the only people who would buy it are people who trust the bank that supports it, so in effect, the bank is promising to bail out the SIV if it should get in trouble.

只有人们相信设立SIV的银行的时候,他们才会去买SIV发行的票据,所以实际上,银行已经作出承诺,如果SIV陷入麻烦,银行会出面解决

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