Yes. That is an 'empty' promise.

是的。那就是一张“空头”支票。

They come with empty promises and closed fists.

他们带着空洞的许诺和握紧的拳头而来。

They say the government has a long history of empty promises.

他们坦言政府的空头承诺向来历史悠久。

His whole style was different from the empty promises of wealth offered by President Hoover.

他的整个风格不同于胡佛总统有关财富的空洞承诺。

That's how we live here in this place and let down. Now we suffer through the empty promises they make for us.

我们就住在这样的房子里，非常失望。我们遭受了政府屡次开出的空头支票。

So, the headline is saying this could be a breakthrough, that means a really big development, or it could be an 'empty promise'.

所以，新闻标题说这可能是一次重大进展，这表示非常大的进展，或者这可能是一张“空头支票”。

She won't be duped by a bunch of empty promises.

她不会被一堆空头支票给骗了。

These corporate climate pledges might be worse than just empty promises.

这些企业气候承诺可能比空洞的承诺更糟糕。

She will not be duped by a bunch of empty promises.

她不会被你的一堆空头支票蒙骗的。

Too often, those traditional wedding vows turn out to be nothing but empty promises.

很多时候，那些传统的婚礼誓言只不过是空洞的承诺。

An " empty promise" is something you say you will do, but you aren't really going to do it.

“空洞的承诺” 是你说你会做的事情，但你并没有真正去做。

" Liar, " she said behind him. " I'm not a child, to be soothed with empty promises. You told me you would free Jaime too. Well, where is he" ?

" 骗子，" 她在他背后说，" 我不是三岁小孩，少拿空洞的承诺来敷衍我。你不是号称能救出詹姆吗？哼，他人在哪里？"

For far too many, the American dream has become an empty promise, a cruel mockery of lives held back by barriers, new and old. That is not good enough for any American.

对于太多的人来说，美国梦已经变成了一个空洞的承诺，是对障碍阻断之下的生活的嘲弄，这些障碍有新的，有旧的，它对任何人而言都不够好。