起初

Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.

亲爱的弟兄啊，我写给你们的，不是一条新命令，乃是你们从起初所受的旧命令；这旧命令就是你们所听见的道。

Written in short lengths for newspaper serialization, the autobiography is not a literary masterpiece, but it is the more impressive because of the commonplaceness of much of its material.

值得一提的是，甘地起初抱得是印度青年学生的正常的雄心，只是逐渐采用了他的那些偏激的思想，在某些情况下还相当不情愿。

At first, it appeared to me that the entire country was one big construction site.

起初，在我看来，这整个国家就是一个巨大的工地。

There does seem to be a strange kind of link between jazz and science-fiction -- both are genres that were initially seen as contemptibly "low-class" and raised themselves to respectability.

爵士乐和科幻之间似乎有着某种奇妙的连结──两者在起初都被视为卑微而"低等"的类型，慢慢才开始提升地位，获得尊重。

At first public sympathy for their plight was more muted than it had been for Schapelle Corby, a comely 27-yearold who was arrested in Indonesia in 2004 and convicted of smuggling marijuana into Bali.

起初，公众对他们困境的同情心甚至比对Schapelle Corby的遭遇更冷漠，Schapelle Corby，一个清秀的27岁小伙子，因2004年在印度尼西亚走私大麻到巴厘岛而被捕。

Initially, one can anticipate that Bluetooth Computer Headsets will be relatively expensive when compared to their 'corded' couterparts.

起初，人们可以预料，蓝芽耳机会比较昂贵的电脑相比，他们的记录『非官方。

In accordance with this rule, it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson's lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King's Chapel.

新殖民地的开拓者们，不管他们的头脑中起初有什么关于人类品德和幸福的美妙理想，总要在各种实际需要的草创之中，忘不了划出一片未开垦的处女地充当墓地，再则出另一片土地来修建监狱。

People began by laughing at this ghost dressed like a man of fashion, but the phantom legend soon spread among the corps de ballet.

起初，人们是嘲笑这个打扮得像时尚人士的幽灵，但没过多久，有关幽灵的传说就在芭蕾舞剧团里传开了。

I would like to correspond with you at first to understand your culture.

我希望对应与您起初了解您的文化。

His colleagues had trouble believing his maximal value at first because it seemed counterintuitive at the time.

他的同事起初不相信他的最大价值观，因为当时这是违反直觉的。

In the United States, chronic alcoholism and hepatitis C are the most common ones.

在美国，慢性酒精中毒，肝炎是最常见的。

If you have any questions, you can contact me anytime.

如果有任何问题，你可以随时联系我。