Some 15 percent lit up within hours of making the pledge, the survey showed.

调查显示，约15%的受访者立誓戒烟还不到几个小时，就又开始吞云吐雾了。

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I pledge allegiance to the Beatles and the conviction that life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

我宣誓忠于甲壳虫乐队，以及这一信念，那就是当你正忙着做别的计划时，恰巧发生在你身上的种种事情，这些就是命运。

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However, the value of this pledge has been reduced by the lack of an agreed start date from which the emission cuts should be measured, making it a distant promise.

然而，这一承诺的价值却由于未能对减排测量的开始日期达成一致而大打折扣，使之成为一个遥不可及的承诺。

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And after making the pledge to appoint a Lincolnesque "team of rivals, " Obama nominated Sen.

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"I think it is all too easy not to remember those that can be so easily forgotten, " he said after making the pledge.

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By making the pledge before the terms of the Senate deal were even set, Zelizer said, Boehner sent a signal to House Republicans that they were going to lose the battle over the fiscal cliff even if they didn't like the Senate deal.

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