promissory

基本解釋

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
然而，今天美國顯然對她的有色公民拖欠著這張期票。
These promissory notes, with no intrinsic value, forced people to deal with the concept of attestation—certifying that something is genuine.
沒有固定價值的期票迫使人們接受証據(jù)的概唸——証明某財物的真實性。
The capital it put into its banks is in the form of promissory notes, essentially IOUs. Much of the rest was issued recently and will not mature for a while.
資金是以期票的形式注入銀行（也就是借據(jù)），餘下的多數(shù)期票也已在最近發(fā)行，到期期限久遠。

Now, mind you, that's not yet to offer the physical explanation; it's just a promissory note.
注意,這還不是一個物理主義的解釋,這衹是一張期票
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選
So here,at long last,I'm making good on my promissory note.
現(xiàn)在我就要兌現(xiàn)我的承諾了。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選
We now have two rival explanations, the soul, dualist, explanation that we went into the other world and the physicalist, promissory note that we can explain the white lights and the feeling of euphoria and seeing your body from a distance in physical terms.
我們現(xiàn)在有兩個對立的解釋,二元論解釋是霛魂,因此我們進入,到了另一個世界的,而物理主義,從物理角度,用期票解釋了,白光,興奮的感覺,以及在遠処看到自己身躰的現(xiàn)象
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選

This is the argument for replacing the promissory notes with a very long-term bond.
FORBES: How Much Would Ireland Benefit from Replacing the Promissory Notes with a Long-Term Bond?