Mean What You Say（常速版）

Mean What You Say Some people say that promises are made to be broken. That certainly seems to be true in this cutthroat society that we live in. But if you break your promise, you will ruin your reputation and no one will trust you anymore. So whenever we say: “I give you my word”, we should mean it. There is nothing worse than to be let down by others because they have not kept their promises. In fact, it isn’t so difficult to keep promises. Just remember never to promise anything we are not sure we can live up to. In short, therefore, to be trustworthy, we should always say what we mean and mean what we say. 【参考译文】 有些人说承诺就是许下来违背的。这种情形在我们这个竞争激烈的社会里似乎真的是这样。但是如果你不守承诺，你会毁掉你的信誉，而且没有人会再信任你。所以无论何时我们说：“我向你保证”，我们应该说话算话。没有比不信守承诺而让人失望更糟糕的事情了。 事实上，信守承诺并没那么难。只需要记住，不要承诺任何不确认我们能否做到的事情。总之，因此为了更值得信赖，我们应该言行一致、信守承诺