英语常用词用法-257：commitment

英语常用词用法-257：commitment

英语常用词疑问用法-257：commitment

这个名词来主动词commit，大抵意义是“允许”、“据守”、“职责”、“信心”、“力气或精力的投入”、“积极”，翻译时要看全文机动处理。

their commitment to striving for peace他们为安静而积极的职责

Europe, especially Northern Europe, has made a major commitment to wind power, and they're generating a significant percentage of their power that way. (Newsweek, Oct. 17, 2005, p. 46) 欧洲，尤其是北欧，以前下了很大力气开发风能，他们的电力以前有很大一个百分比是靠风能发电的。

Despite the rhetorical concern of Western donor governments, the commitments have been astonishingly stingy. (New York Review of Books, March 14, 2002, p. 30) 只管东方各捐赠国的当局外表上表现体贴，但是作出的积极却是鄙吝得令人受惊。

She had frankly confessed to only two affairs, each without emotional commitment and both ultimately disappointing.她坦率地供认本人只谈过两次恋爱，每次在情感上都没有投入，并且两次后果都很扫兴。

We should make a national commitment to develop flu vaccine technology fit for the 21st century. (US News & World Report, Feb. 9, 2004, p. 61)我们必需举国大力提高合适21世纪的流感疫苗武艺。

What sort of commitments is the administration prepared to make to restore stability to Iraq and the region? 当局准备作出怎样样的积极来规复伊拉克和这个地区的安定？

He may have to miss the debate to honor his commitment. 他约莫不得不错过这次争辩，以免爽约。

Yet even for those not keen on spy stories, this movie is worth the commitment. 即使是那些对特务故事不感兴致的人，这部片子也值得一看。