broken promise

基本解释

Many a broken promise has left a broken heart.
许多毁约使人碎心。
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，或是地狱；或是美梦，或是梦魇；或是希望，或是破灭——但经常是这样的情况：居于两者之间，两者兼而有之。
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.
五天后，当时的日本首相鸠山由纪夫（Yukio Hatoyama）辞职，部分原因就是他没有履行与冲绳居民把军事基地完全搬离该岛的承诺。

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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