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Meaning of New Year's resolution in English

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New Year's resolution

noun [ C ]

UK  /ˌnjuː ˌjɪəz ˌrez.əˈluː.ʃən / US 

/ˌnuː ˌjɪrz ˌrez.əˈluː.ʃən /
(also New Year resolution)
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a promise that you make to yourself to

start doing something good or stop
doing something bad on the first day
of the year:

• "Have you made any New Year's

resolutions?" "Yes, I'm going to eat
more healthily and give up smoking."

 SMART Vocabulary: related words and

phrases

Making & breaking promises &

commitments

be on your honour idiom

bond
breach of contract
commitment
committed
covenant
cross my heart (and hope to die) idiom
deliver on something
fink
go back on something
pact
promise
repledge
swear someone in
unconfessed
undeliverable
undelivered
undertake
undertaking
vow

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resolution

in Chinese (Traditional)

新年決⼼…
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in Chinese (Simplified)

新年决⼼…
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in Portuguese

promessa de ano-novo…
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