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This disease later came to be known as AIDS, but at first it had no name and puzzled everyone, including the doctors.
后来，这种疾病开始被称为爱滋病（AIDS），但是起初它没有名字而且困扰著每一个人，包括医生也迷惑不解。
He wondered if she had been afraid at first, going up in that little wicker basket with the hills falling away.
他猜想她起初应该很害怕吧，毕竟，他们站在藤条制的狭小篮子里看着群山渐渐缩小。
That might be fine at first, but eventually he's going to have to understand that adulthood doesn't come with an allowance.
这种方法起初看起来很好，但他最终不得不明白成人以后是没人给他零用钱的。
At first my eyes and ears did not work very well, but after a while I began to see and hear clearly.
开始时我的眼睛和耳朵不大灵便，但过了一会儿我就能看清楚、听明白了。
At first he thought this was because he had allowed his will to weaken, the concentrated power of his mind to grow slack.
起初，他以为这是因为自己意志不够坚定，让聚精会神的注意力涣散了。
The bulk of the money will have to come from the private sector. At first that could be in the form of loans and equity investments.
其中的大部分资金只能来自私人部门，起初可能以贷款和股权投资的形式出现。
You might be able to pursue it within your current job, or do it as a side job or just as a hobby at first.
你可能在现在的工作中就能实践，或者把它作为兼职来做，或者仅仅从爱好出发。
At first his wife did not answer, but then she said, "Well, Herbert laughed about it. . . "
开始，他妻子没有理他，好一会儿才说：“赫伯特也嘲笑过这件事。”
At first the old soldier did not answer, but in the end he said quietly, "OK. But remember! Be careful! Think before you make your wish, "
开始，老兵什么也不回答，最后他静静地说，“好吧，但记住要小心，在你许愿之前要考虑好。”
'Cornelia, ' said the Doctor, 'Dombey will be your charge at first. Bring him on, Cornelia, bring him on. '
“科妮莉亚，”博士说道，“董贝首先交给你管。培养他吧，科妮莉亚，培养他吧。”
N. At first he does not know at all what she does or what she sacrifices for him. Especially he cannot allow for her hate.
在开始的时候，他一点都不知道她所做的一起和她为他做出的牺牲。
I fitted myself up for a battle, as before; though with more caution, knowing I had to do with another kind of enemy than I had at first.
我照旧进行着作战的准备；可是比过去更加小心，因为我知道所要应付的是一种和从前不同的敌人。
So that would not, at first sight, seem to suggest that oil money has been driving bond yields up and down.
乍一看来，似乎石油美元推动债券收益率大起大落的论断并不成立。
At first, I had my dog in Spain. I had to fill in papers to get him, it was very strict, and I missed him for the year.
最初我在西班牙有自己的狗，我必须填满各种文件才能得到它，这种事儿非常严格，现在我很想念它。
Further research is needed, and the truth is bound to be quite a bit more complex than it might at first appear.
还需要进一步的研究，真相注定会比当最初被发现时更复杂。
Three years later , he began to develop AIDS symptoms. At first he thought it was just a bad cold.
三年以后，他开始出现艾滋病的症状。一开始，他以为只不过是一场重感冒。
In the light of day, in a street full of passengers, she was like playing a lucky-draw and had her eye on me at first sight.
光天化日，在人们熙来攘往的大街上，她像是在玩送奖游戏，一眼看中了走在法国梧桐树下的我。
At first there were just small groups of men, moving about six in a bunch with a 10-yard interval between them.
起初，只是几小群士兵，大约六人一组，组间距离10码左右。
and it might be said after all that, at first sight, our science certainly seems to have re-adopted the solution of closing the frontier.
我们终究要说，乍看来，我们的科学重新采用的解决方法，似乎是将这个边境封闭。
At first, I read in the living room, do not know Fall in love with my orchids, nodding his head in a pot peck.
起先，我在客厅看书，不知道他恋上了我的兰花，在花盆里点头啄食。
He could not at first decide whether he were pleased or displeased at this.
一开始他无法断定自己对此究竟是高兴还是难过。
The coins of every country are difficult to learn at first.
各国的辅币起初都难于辨认。
He didn't like the plan at first, but we managed to bring him round.
他起初并不喜欢这个计划，但我们最终使他回心转意了。
Hunger stole upon me so slowly that at first I was not aware of what hunger really meant.
饥饿，缓慢地悄悄向我袭来，所以起初我不知道饥饿到底是什么滋味。
At first we took it for a dog.
起初，我们把它当成了一条狗。
At first this emergency economic program drew great criticism because it destroyed surplus food and plowed under planted crops.
起初，这个应急的经济计划引起了大量批评，因为这毁弃了剩余粮食，翻耕了青苗地。
They were very polite at first, and it amused them very much that I should be an American.
他们起初总是非常拘谨，使他们感到非常有意思的是我竟是一个美国人。
We have been misguided at first.
开始时我们被引错了路。
At first he cried softly to himself.
他先是小声暗自啜泣。
It chilled and almost numbed him at first.
这使他心冷了，甚至呆住了。
He never "watch" his language with her, which at first she took as evidence of his contempt.
和她在一起他从来不“注意”他的语言，起先，她把这看成是他瞧不起她的一种迹象。
She threw at me a very naughty look, so naughty that I would not kiss her good-night at first.
她对我作出非常淘气的表情，淘气得我起先都不想吻她和道晚安了。
He wore a pair of round silver rimmed-glasses which gave him at first glance a studious or, at least, a methodical appearance.
他戴了一副银丝边圆眼镜，乍一看去似乎有一种勤奋好学的风度，起码也给人一种循规蹈矩之感。
I fitted myself up for a battle, as before; though with more caution, knowing I had to do with another kind of enemy than I had at first.
我照旧进行着作战的准备；可是比过去更加小心，因为我知道所要应付的是一种和从前不同的敌人。
He'll not seem to you so gentle and kind at first, perhaps, because it is not his way.
也许一开始你觉得他不怎么和气仁慈，因为他的作风不是这样。
They did not know that she was dead, at first.
最初他们并不知道她死了。
When he stood in the center of the circle, he was so disguised in these new colours that, at first, the hunter did not recognize him.
当他站到场子中间的时候，由于他脸上画着这种新花纹，面目全非，打猎将乍一看都认不出他来了。
At first, I believed everything he said; but later I found that he was lying all the time.
一开始，我相信他的每句话；但是后来我发现他一直在说谎。
He gave a sort of cough and gulp, and at first I could not hear quite clearly.
他发出一种咳嗽和吞咽的声音，所以我最初听不大清楚。
He opens his eyes, blankly at first, then with a painful effort to remember.
他睁开了眼睛，起先呆呆地，随后就挣扎着开始思索。
He smiled at first at the air of great secrecy and wisdom on the part of the younger men.
他起初讥笑比较年轻些的人所表现的极机密，极聪明的神气。
For water at atmospheric pressure, there would be a small decrease in volume at first.
对于1个大气压下的水，开始时体积将会稍微减小。
At first they appear to have fought in a scattered fashion, each man doing his personal feats.
起初他们似乎是分散作战的，每个人凭着自己的武艺取胜。
The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings, is easily moved away.
溪水还象最初一样清澈，拐弯处积下的细小污物很容易就被清除。
What at first appears to be an advantage rapidly becomes a disadvantage, and in the end an intolerable burden.
这起初好象还颇有好处，但很快就变为不利了，到头来竟成为难以忍受的负担。
Better roads and better vehicles at first induced the wealthier classes to live on the outskirts of the cities.
较好的道路及较好的车辆首先吸引较富有阶层的人住到市郊去。
Judge not of men and things at first sight.
对人对事慢评论，初次印象未必真。
At first, she told herself that she asked nothing better.
起先，她心想，这是再好也没有的事。
Of course, whatever novelty there may have been at first in my society has quite passed away.
当然，跟我作伴，不管开头有多少新鲜，现在这一切都已过去。
At first all Roosevelt boys looked alike to us but quickly we sorted them out.
起初，在我们看来，罗斯福所有的男孩子都长得很象，但是不久后，我们就可以区别他们了。
At first she was against Pen, and suspicious of him, she was his partisan now.
起先她反对小潘，怀疑他不怀好意，现在却跟他很投契。
July's announcement that the government was ready to lend without limit to keep the agencies going appeared to work at first.
美国财政部7月份表示，政府准备无限制提供贷款以维持两家机构的运转。声明最初似乎起到了效果。
Do not believe what love at first sight, because you can not see at a glance how much money the other side.
不要相信什么一见钟情，因为你不能一眼看出对方挣多少钱。
He stopped. At first he did not recognize her, to him she looked so old.
他停了下来，一开始都没认出来，因为她看起来相当苍老。
I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight.
一开始为这事我还挺受伤；似乎我受到了那么点怠慢。
It felt scary at first, but knowing that I was on my own and in charge of what I did and when I did it, was an exciting concept.
最初感到有些恐怖，可知道我独立了，自己可以决定做什么和什么时候做，想想这，也挺激动的。
For me, Mourinho is number one. . . At first when I said it, it may have seemed obvious, but a year down the road I maintain this.
对我来说，穆里尼奥就是No.1…赛季初我这么说时看起来是显而易见的，但一年后我仍然保持这样的看法。
He never "watch" his language with her, which at first she took as evidence of his contempt.
和她在一起他从来不“注意”他的语言，起先，她把这看成是他瞧不起她的一种迹象。
Overhead was the week's washing, hanging in festoons so low that Martin did not see at first the two men talking in a corner.
一周来的衣服洗过了，像万国旗一样低低地晾在屋里，马丁刚进来时竟没看见有两个人在一个角落里谈话。
The store of nutriment laid up within the seeds of many plants seems at first sight to have no sort of relation to other plants.
许多植物的种子内部积贮养料，初看似乎和其他植物没有什么关系。
At first, blog is look as a platform for the grass-roots been trying to get equal right to speak.
博客起初是被作为草根们力图获得平等话语权的一个平台来看待的。
At first I wondered if it was true. Wasn't the management merely trying to keep people calm?
是不是酒店管理人员仅仅是为了稳住大家，让大家冷静呢？
At first none of it makes any sense. Sometimes it seems as though all of your practice isn't making a difference.
在最开始的时候，你可能会毫无感觉。甚至你练习了很久，依旧毫无改进。
At first, I did not know what these guys meant. But it did not take long to figure it out.
开始，我并不知道那些家伙什么意思，但是没过多久我就知道它指什么了。
Because at first it was an obsession as she looked like Katherine, but then he realised she was completely different.
因为首先当他看起来长得像K的时候，那是令人困扰的。但是后来他发现她们是完全不同的。
Although there might not be much at first appearance to captivate, there was, at least, nothing to disgust her relations.
初来乍到虽然看不出有多少媚人之处，但至少没有任何地方叫亲戚们看了讨厌。
Then I went to say goodbye to her. At first she was cold with me. She did not understand why I wanted to leave her.
然后我去向她告别。起初她对我很冷淡，她不明白为什么我想离开她。
We got dressed up and went out for dinner, and everything seemed okay at first, but in the middle of dinner I began to feel strangely sick.
一开始一切好像都很正常，但是吃到一半时我忽然奇怪地感到很不舒服。
At first he was just a little bit dumb, but suddenly he shouted at all of us and said there was cheating taking place.
开始的时候，他还只是有点沉默而已，后来突然就朝我们大声嚷嚷起来，觉得我们骗他了。
He began to turn over in the air when his chute opened, and there were problems with the lines at first.
降落伞打开之后，他开始在空中翻转。最开始的时候，绳索出现一些问题。
At first several of them spoke of "chucking up" at once.
起初有些人主张立刻“歇手不干”。
He cuts a sorry figure at first.
起初，他是一个蹩脚的角色。
We set sail from Bristol, May 4th, 1699, and our voyage at first was very prosperous.
1699年5月4日，我们从布利斯脱开船，我们的航行最初是很顺利的。
