break the promise

基本解釋

Husband: Sorry, I have to break the promise again this time.
丈夫：對不起，我這次不得不又食言了。
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But if ln were aliased with li, then it would break the type-safety promise implicit in the definition of li -- that it is a list of integers, which is why generic types cannot be covariant.
但是如果 ln是 li的別名，那么這就破壞了蘊含在 li定義中的類型安全承諾 —— 它是一個整數(shù)列表，這就是泛型類型不能協(xié)變的原因。
Nonetheless, according to classic utilitarianism, what makes it morally wrong to break the promise is its effects on those other people rather than the fact that the agent promised in the past.
不過，根據(jù)經(jīng)典的功利主義，是什么使它在道義上是錯誤的突破，是對這些承諾的影響而不是讓代理商在過去的承諾，實際上其他人。
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