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他答应星期五之前完成这项工作。 He undertook to finish the job by Friday.
我会陪在你身边,就象我答应你的那样。 I will be at your side, as I promised you.
我答应一定完好无损地还你的自行车。 I promise to return your bicycle on good condition.
机场当局已答应重新检查他们的安全措施。 The airport authorities have promised to review their security measurements.
我当然不答应! I certainly will not!
当局答应给护士增加5%的工资, 但她们坚持要得到7%的增幅. The nurses have been offered an extra 5%, but they're standing out for a 7% pay rise.
公司答应给工人增加工资. The firm promised a wage increase to the workers/promised the workers a wage increase.
政府已答应采取措施来帮助失业者。 The government has promised to take measures to help the unemployed.
他答应赶紧写好报告,今天就给我们送来。 He promised to hurry on with the report and send it to us today.
他勉强答应下来了。 He gave a reluctant promise.
我答应决不泄漏他的秘密。 I promise never to reveal his secret.
总统答应会迅速有效地惩罚恐怖分子。 The president promised swift and effective retribution against the terrorists.
我从未答应过把汽车借给你: 你是在做梦吧! I never promised to lend you my car: you must be dreaming!
我再三央求,他才答应帮忙。 He made a promise of help, as I pleaded with him again and again.
父亲答应让他的儿子单独出国旅行。 The father allowed (=permitted) his son to travel abroad alone.
她答应赔偿损失. She promised to make good the loss.
商店答应, 倘若我付定金就给我保留这批货. The shop promised to keep the goods for me if I paid a deposit.
他本来答应跟我们同往,但后来一直借故推辞了。 He promised to go with us, but he has since begged off.
工作完成了--好倒是好--但是答应给我们的奖金给不给? The job's done, that's all well and good but what about the bonus we were promised?
点名时,孩子们听到自己的名子一一答应。 At the roll-call the children answered up to their names.
她这个人不好说话,我想她不会答应我们的。 She is a hard nut(to crack);I don't think she will give us permission.
她答应在孩子们的妈妈上夜班时照顾这些孩子。 She promised to see after the children when their mother were on the night shift.
他请求他母亲答应他去看马戏。 He pleaded with his mother to allow him to go to the circus.
他的父母决不会答应这门婚事。 Her parents will never take acquiescence of such a marriage.
反对党领袖答应提供一个有效力的政治体制。 The leader of the opposition is promising to provide effective government.
她看上去又可怜又孤独,对于答应来看她的朋友的到来已不抱希望。 She looked wretched and forlorn, despairing of the arrival of a friend who had promised to meet her.