发誓

And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life's growth .

我郑重发誓，任何事情都不会妨碍我新生命的成长！

I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life's growth.

我郑重地发誓，绝不让任何事情妨碍我新生命的成长。

I vowed never to reveal the secret.

我发誓决不泄漏这一秘密。

I vow ed never to reveal the secret.

我发誓决不泄漏这一秘密。

In its "Rifleman's Creed" a recruit swears before God to treat his rifle as his best friend, his brother and the saviour of his life.

在其"步兵射手信条"中，新兵需对上帝发誓他将把自己的步枪视作自己的挚友、兄弟和生命的救星。

Riley: I don't know. I swear.

我不知道，我发誓。

Or his insubordination to the river-god, on whose divinity he is ready to lay hands; or his offering to the dead Patroclus of his own hair, which had been previously dedicated to the other river-god Spercheius, and that he actually performed this vow; or that he dragged Hector round the tomb of Patroclus, and slaughtered the captives at the pyre; of all this I cannot believe that he was guilty, any more than I can allow our citizens to believe that he, the wise Cheiron's pupil, the son of a goddess and of Peleus who was the gentlest of men and third in descent from Zeus, was so disordered in his wits as to be at one time the slave of two seemingly inconsistent passions, meanness, not untainted by avarice, combined with overweening contempt of gods and men.

还有关于阿喀琉斯冒犯河神的描写，说他准备跟他信奉的神大打出手；还说到他如何将已经发誓许愿献给河神斯普彻修斯的头发献给了亡友帕特罗克勒斯；还有说他拖着赫克托耳的尸首去帕特罗克勒斯之墓，在灵柩前残杀战俘以作祭奠；我们不能相信这些都是他造的罪，我也不能让我们的国民去相信阿喀琉斯这位喀戎的好学生，女神和温和之神、宙斯三世孙珀琉斯的儿子，竟是如此的心志丧乱，曾经如此这般性情矛盾地沦为两大恶欲之奴，卑鄙恶毒如斯，贪婪放荡如斯，而且还曾如此傲慢自大于人神之间。

Rooster: I swear, it's true!

我发誓，这个故事是真的！

They vowed to have no more rows, since they were rowing the same boat now.

他们发誓不要再有争吵，既然他们现在正在划同一条船。

He'll joke that he's younger than baseball commissioner Bud Selig, 74, while on other occasions vowing he won't reach former NFL boss Pete Rozelle's 39 years on the job.

他开玩笑地说他比74岁的社林格年轻多了，他曾发誓不会去与前nfl老板39岁的皮特竞争这个职位。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。