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VOA慢速英语:How a Promise to Guarantee Bad Debts Came to Haunt Ireland
例句:I will ensure that the car arrives by six o'clock.
我保证汽车六点钟以前到。
We ensured it to be pure.
我们担保它是纯的。
ensure,insure,assure,guarantee,pledge,promise
这些动词都有“保证”之意。
ensure侧重使人相信某个行为或力量产生的结果。
insure常与ensure换用,但前者多指经济方面的保证、保险。
assure侧重指消除某人思想上的怀疑或担心,从而有达到目的的保证感,但不如ensure普通。
guarantee指对事物的品质或人的行为及履行义务、义务等承担责任的保证。
pledge正式用词,指通过郑重许诺、协议或立誓等保证承担某一义务或遵守某一原则。
promise侧重表自己的主观意向,设法用语言使人感到稳当可靠。
2.guarantee vt.保证; 担保
例句:We can't guarantee our workers' regular employment.
我们不能保证我们的工人定期受雇。
3.extensive adj.广阔的, 广大的, 大量的; 广泛的, 大规模的, 广博的
例句:The house has extensive grounds.
这栋房子有广阔的空地。
4.inflate v.(使)通货膨胀, 物价上涨
例句:The buyers bid against each other and often inflate the prices they pay.
买主们竞相投标, 往往人为地提高价钱。
5.bubble n.泡影, 幻想
例句:News of the defeat quickly burst the bubble of our self-confidence.
失败的消息使我们的自信心迅速破灭了。
6.expand vt.vi.使…变大, 扩大, 扩张, 增强(尺码、数量或重要性)
例句:The ranks of the teachers are constantly expanding.
教师队伍日益扩大了。
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