For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself.

当初神应许亚伯拉罕的时候，因为没有比自己更大可以指着起誓的，就指着自己起誓说。

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Claire had made me promise to tell her the truth.

克莱尔已经逼我答应了告诉她真相。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I made a solemn promise that I would return.

我郑重承诺我会回来的。

《牛津词典》

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

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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。

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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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However, I have made promise to myself.

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So promise made, promise kept.

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In the campaign last year, you all remember, I made a promise to pass it.

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