雅思口语Part2话题卡：Describe a time you made a promise to someone 对别人许下的承诺

思路点拨：以下思路仅供参考，希望大家根据自己的真实经历编写答案

想必大家在生活中对别人许下过不少承诺/诺言。大家可以在自己的记忆中搜寻一遍，找一个自己印象最深的一个或者自己说起来较为容易的一个来表达。这里面有一个很有意思的地方：这个诺言并非一定是那种一锤子买卖的。例如，张三许诺李四，自己中了彩票分李四一半，最后李四中了彩票并兑现了诺言。还可以是长期的，比如，要做一个终身学习者，你只能keep(保持住)这个诺言。这也正是该话题中也提及到的keep promise是否比较困难这一点。这两种诺言均可在考试中表达，大家可以多花些时间去思考一下，然后给自己一点时间口头初步练习，最后再参考答案进行学习。

题目

Describe a time you made a promise to someone

You should say:

What the promise was

To whom you made it

Whether it was easy or difficult to keep

And explain why you made it

参考答案

下面是小编根据具体的题目要求，给出的参考答案：

A time I made a promise to someone happened about three years ago.

一个我对别人许下的承诺发生在大概三年前。

The promise was that I must study abroad to pursue my higher education degree. As you can guess, I made it to my parents. You know, they are strong advocates of international education and like to see their kid show that learning capability.

承诺就是我必须出国读书，获取高等教育的学位。你能猜得到，我是对我的父母许下的这个承诺。他们是国际教育的狂热分子，希望能够看到自己的孩子有学习的能力。

To be honest, I still think it was really a rough experience to keep this promise, since breaking the barriers, such as language, and academic performance, wasn’t easy. This article is from Laokaoya website. To make it one step closer to reality, I literally burned the midnight oil for every important exam at school. As you know, GPA counted heavily in college applications.

老实讲，保持这个诺言是一个挺艰难的经历，到现在我都是这样认为的。因为要打破一些诸如语言、学习等障碍并非易事。为了能进一步兑现诺言，我几乎在校的每一场考试前都会通宵挑灯夜战。你也知道，在大学申请中，学习绩点非常重要。

Well, I think one of the reasons why I made this promise was that I did not want my parents down. You know, they care about me more than they do about themselves. Another reason is that being able to study abroad is indeed a good opportunity for me to broaden my horizon, and thus become more aware of who I want to be.

我认为我许下这个承诺的一个原因就是我不想让我的父母失望，他们在乎我胜过在乎他们自己。另外一个原因就是，能够去国外读书的话，也是一个可以扩宽自己视野的好机会，因此也能让我更好地成为我想要的自己。