【promise音标】 英[ˈprɒmɪs] 美[ˈprɑ:mɪs]
【单词释义】 promise是什么意思：
vt.允诺，许诺；承诺；给人以…的指望或希望
vi.许诺；有指望，有前途
n.许诺；承诺；希望，指望；允诺的东西
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] promises [第三人称单数] promises
[单词现在分词] promising
[单词过去式] promised
[单词过去分词] promised
【promise形近词/近似词】
surmise n.推测；猜测 v.推测；猜测；推断
demise n.[U]失败；倒闭；死亡；（不动产的）遗赠 v.遗赠；让位
compromise n.妥协；妥协（或折中）方案 vi.折中解决；妥协
premise n.前提；假设 vt.预述（条件等）；假定；以…为前提
【常用短语】
break a promise 违背承诺
keep a promise 信守承诺
make a promise 允许；允诺
【近义词解析】
◇ v.保证
assure ([四级]v. 向…保证，使确信)：指用言语承诺某事一定会发生或一定是真实的，以消除他人的疑虑或担心。
guarantee (v. 担保，保证)：指以口头或书面形式作保证、担保、承诺，含若违背则予以补偿之意。
promise (v. 保证，答应)：指保证一定会做某事或提供某物，或某事一定会发生，侧重于自己的主观意向，用言语使人感到放心。
【单词例句】
◇ The stepmother brought with her two daughters. Cinderella was happy to have a new stepmother and stepsisters. However, it wasn't for long, for Father soon had to leave on a far away trip. "Pretty Cinderella, listen to your stepmother and stepsisters." Cinderella promised her father that she would.
继母带着两个女儿嫁了过来。灰姑娘有了继母和姐妹感到很高兴。然而，好景不长，父亲不久后将要离开去一个很远的地方。“美丽的灰姑娘，乖乖地听你继母和姐妹的话。”灰姑娘答应了父亲。
---- Cinderella
◇ He answered, "If you will promise me that the next girl we meet shall not be killed."
他说：“不过你们得向我保证，决不杀死见到的第一个女孩。”
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ "I don't want any of them," answered the frog. "Your clothes, your pearls and your jewels, or even your golden crown, are nothing to me. I want you to love me, and let me be your companion. I'd like to sit at your table, eat from your golden plate, and drink out of your cup, and sleep in your nice bed. If you promise me all this, I will dive down into the water and bring up your pretty golden ball."
青蛙答道：“我不要这些东西。你的衣服，珍珠，甚至于你金色的王冠对我来说，不值一文。我要你爱我，并让我做你的伴侣。我要坐在你桌子上，用你的金盘吃东西，用你的杯子喝水，并睡在你舒适的床上。如果你答应我这些，我就潜到水里去把你漂亮的金球拿上来。”
---- The Frog Prince
◇ They advertised on posters outside the stadium to promise that every competitor is to have a regular physical examination in a gymnasium one after another.
他们在体育场外的海报上做广告，承诺说每个参赛者都将在体育馆一个一个地参加常规的身体检查。
---- A Fair Competition
◇ Foster said the potential outcome is promising. "The good news is that China has a history of thinking big and carrying out tasks at a large scale. It verifies that China can embrace huge projects like this."
福斯特说，可以预见的成果非常鼓舞人心。“好消息是，中国一直擅长于从大局着眼，大范围开展工作。中国可以以此实施大工程，这已经得到证实。”
---- Eliminating poverty builds larger market
◇ In promising to fuse media as diverse as television,telephone communication,video games,music and data transmission,the era of digital convergence goes better than yesterday's celebrated “information superhighway.” Yet achieving this single technology is far from straightforward.
希望把媒体结合起来并像电视、电话、游戏、音乐和数据传输一样富有变化，数字集成时代将比以前著名的信息高速公路发展得好。要得到这单一的技术不是那么容易的。
◇ And yet it was a young woman who stared back at me from the mirror. A young woman full of promise and hope, a young woman with bright eyes and full lips just waiting to take on the world.
可是镜子里回瞪着我的那个女孩还是那么年轻啊！明目皓齿，充满了前途与希望，光明的未来在向她招手。
---- A Little Piece of Me
◇ I bought this policy for you, though the amount is only $100k, I hope it will be able to help me continue my promise that I have made when we got married, I might not be around anymore, I want this amount of money to continue taking care of you, just like the way I will if I could have live longer.
我为你买了这份保险。虽然金额总数才区区10万美元，但我希望它能帮助我继续履行我们结婚时我所起的照顾你一生一世的诺言。我不能再陪你一起度过你的余生，但我希望保险金额里的钱能够帮助我实现照顾你后半生生活的愿望，就像我可以重生的话那样照顾你。
---- Life Together
◇ Until the old woman had mercy and said to him, "Be satisfied that she is still alive. I secretly had a doe killed and took the proofs from it. I tied your wife's child onto her back and told her to go out into the wide world, and she had to promise never to come back here, because you were so angry with her."
老母看他哭得实在可怜，就对他说：“别哭了，她还活着。我悄悄地杀了一头鹿，取了那些证物。实际上我把孩子绑到你妻子的背上，让她到野外谋生，要她别再回来，因为你信上似乎对她很恼怒。”
---- The Girl without Hands (II)
◇ One day he had gone into the forest to gather wood, where he was approached by an old man, whom he had never seen before, and who said, "Why do you torment yourself with chopping wood? I will make you rich if you will promise me that which is standing behind your mill."
有一天，他到森林里去砍柴，一个他从没见过的老头走近前来对他说：“你何苦这么辛苦地砍柴呀？只要你答应把你磨房后的东西给我，我就让你过富人的日子。”