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| 1 | mainly journalism a serious and public promise to do something 承诺；诺言；誓言 | Sunday’ s vote was a test of the new president’ s pledge of fair elections. 星期天的投票是对新总统进行公平选举这一诺言的检验。 | | campaign/election pledge (=a promise made during an election) a campaign pledge to cut taxes 竞选/选举誓言 | | make/keep/break a pledge to do sth The rebels had failed to keep a pledge to release the two men. 叛乱者没有信守诺言释放那两个人。 | | | 1a | an amount of money that you have promised to give an organization 承诺（给予某组织）的钱款 | | a pledge of £250 to cancer research 为癌症研究捐款250英镑的承诺 | | | | |
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| 2 | something valuable that you give to someone as a way of promising that you will pay them money later 抵押；抵押品 |
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| - | sign/take the pledge old-fashioned
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| to promise not to drink alcohol any more |
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