promissory note

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Technically, a CD is a promissory note the issuing bank delivers to you.
专业的来讲，存款证是开证银行提供给您的期票。
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
然而，今天美国显然对她的有色公民拖欠着这张期票。
At most, his speech is a promissory note, a reminder to America’s Hispanic voters that they can at some point count on the Democrats to do the right thing.
他的演讲最多就像一张银行本票，提醒美国的拉丁美洲裔的投票者在某一时刻他们可以指望民主党做这件事。

Now, mind you, that's not yet to offer the physical explanation; it's just a promissory note.
注意,这还不是一个物理主义的解释,这只是一张期票
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So here,at long last,I'm making good on my promissory note.
现在我就要兑现我的承诺了。
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We now have two rival explanations, the soul, dualist, explanation that we went into the other world and the physicalist, promissory note that we can explain the white lights and the feeling of euphoria and seeing your body from a distance in physical terms.
我们现在有两个对立的解释,二元论解释是灵魂,因此我们进入,到了另一个世界的,而物理主义,从物理角度,用期票解释了,白光,兴奋的感觉,以及在远处看到自己身体的现象
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He eventually began making monthly payments on the promissory note, but otherwise this was pretty much a sham.
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a document that contains a promise to pay a stated amount of money to a stated person either on a fixed date or when the money is demanded

A promissory note is a written, dated promise to pay a specific sum of money to a particular person.