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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   promise

   • IPA[ˈpräməs]

   美式

   • n.
     a declaration or assurance that one will do a particular thing or that a particular thing will happen；the quality of potential excellence
   • v.
     assure someone that one will definitely do, give, or arrange something; undertake or declare that something will happen；pledge (someone, especially a woman) to marry someone else; betroth

   • verb: promise, 3rd person present: promises, gerund or present participle: promising, past tense: promised, past participle: promised

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a declaration or assurance that one will do a particular thing or that a particular thing will happen what happened to all those firm promises of support? he took my fax number with the promise that he would send me a drawing 同義詞 word of honor, word, assurance, pledge, vow, ... 更多guarantee, oath, bond, undertaking, agreement, commitment, contract, covenant, compact
   • ▪ the quality of potential excellence he showed great promise even as a junior officer 同義詞 potential, ability, aptitude, capability, capacity, ... 更多potentiality, talent, flair
   • ▪ an indication that something specified is expected or likely to occur the promise of peace 同義詞 indication, hint, suggestion, sign

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. assure someone that one will definitely do, give, or arrange something; undertake or declare that something will happen he promised to forward my mail she made him promise that he wouldn't do it again 同義詞 give one's word, swear, pledge, vow, undertake, ... 更多guarantee, assure, contract, engage, give an undertaking, give an assurance, commit oneself, bind oneself, cross one's heart (and hope to die), swear/take an oath, covenant, archaicplight
   • ▪ archaic pledge (someone, especially a woman) to marry someone else; betroth I've been promised to him for years
   • 2. give good grounds for expecting (a particular occurrence or situation) forthcoming concerts promise a feast of music from around the world it promised to be a night that all present would long remember 同義詞 indicate, give an/every indication of, lead one to expect, give good grounds for expecting, point to, ... 更多denote, signify, be a sign of, be evidence of, show signs of, hint at, suggest, give hope of, hold out hopes of, bespeak, presage, be a presage of, augur, herald, bode, foreshadow, portend, literarybetoken, foretoken, forebode, rareharbinger
   • ▪ (of a person, publication, institution, etc.) announce (something) as being expected to happen we're promised more winter weather tonight in its pre-Christmas trading statement it promised record results
   • ▪ contemplate the pleasant expectation of he tidied up the room, promising himself an early night

   片語

   • I promise
   • promise the moon
   • promises, promises