The state pension, also linked to the RPI, must go up by at least 2.5%, following a promise made by ministers a few years ago when inflation fell and pensioners got shirty.

几年以前当通货膨胀下降并且退休人员愤怒的时候，部长们做出一项承诺，之后，与零售物价指数挂钩的国家养老金至少上涨了2.5％。

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But to trigger the heart tripwires of a man, a movie has to focus on him staying true to his word, whether it's a promise made to a lover, a comrade-in-arms, or a sick grandson.

不过要想触动一个男人的心弦，电影的重点要在于信守诺言，不管这个承诺对象是恋人，战友还是生病的孙子。

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I made a solemn promise that I would return.

我郑重承诺我会回来的。

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

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But it's still a promise, and it's a promise of the powers of imagination and of poetry, and of poetry made out of play, of a child's play.

但始终还是一个希望，一个想象力和诗歌伟大力量的希望，这些诗是从玩中来的，从孩子们的玩耍中。

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

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In France, the presidential office of Nicolas Sarkozy found itself having to backtrack on a promise made by Mr Sarkozy that big-name politicians elected to the European Parliament for his UMP party would have to take their seats.

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Jasper, chief executive of Dolby Laboratories, had only 12 more days to fulfill a promise made six months earlier to the Walt Disney Co. that his company would build, test and install digital cinema equipment on 84 screens capable of showing Disney's latest cartoon, Chicken Little, in 3-D.

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