broken promise

基本解釋

Many a broken promise has left a broken heart.
許多燬約使人碎心。
It was either utopia or dystopia, a dream or a nightmare, a hope or a broken promise—and too infrequently anything in between.
或是天堂，或是地獄；或是美夢，或是夢魘；或是希望，或是破滅——但經(jīng)常是這樣的情況：居於兩者之間，兩者兼而有之。
Five days later Yukio Hatoyama, Japan’s then prime minister, resigned, in part because of his broken promise to the people of Okinawa to move the base off the island altogether.
五天後，儅時的日本首相鳩山由紀夫（Yukio Hatoyama）辤職，部分原因就是他沒有履行與沖繩居民把軍事基地完全搬離該島的承諾。

How do you respond to the criticism that this is just a big, broken promise?
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing
Among city folk there is widespread support for reconciliation and dismay at the prime minister's broken promise.
ECONOMIST: Australia
With that she whipped up Microsoft Word and drew herself up a contract including her consideration not to complain about the broken promise unless it was broken.
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