promissory

基本解释

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
然而，今天美国显然对她的有色公民拖欠着这张期票。
These promissory notes, with no intrinsic value, forced people to deal with the concept of attestation—certifying that something is genuine.
没有固定价值的期票迫使人们接受证据的概念——证明某财物的真实性。
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.
资金是以期票的形式注入银行（也就是借据），余下的多数期票也已在最近发行，到期期限久远。

Now, mind you, that's not yet to offer the physical explanation; it's just a promissory note.
注意,这还不是一个物理主义的解释,这只是一张期票
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So here,at long last,I'm making good on my promissory note.
现在我就要兑现我的承诺了。
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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.
我们现在有两个对立的解释,二元论解释是灵魂,因此我们进入,到了另一个世界的,而物理主义,从物理角度,用期票解释了,白光,兴奋的感觉,以及在远处看到自己身体的现象
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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?