起初

At first it was a giant column, which soon took the shape of a supramundane mushroom. For a fleeting instant it took the form of the Statue of Liberty magnified many times.

它起初是个巨大的圆株，很快形成了凌云驾空（ supramundane 超越现世的）的大蘑菇，一瞬间又变成了一座扩大了许多倍的自由神像。

"It was slow going in the beginning," Therese told me.

&起初这个事情进行得非常缓慢，&特里萨对我说。

The sole exception is Astrid (America Ferrera from "Ugly Betty"), a tomboyish girl warrior who at first is appalled by this example of interspecies friendship and then, after a flight or two, is thrilled.

唯一的例外是「男人婆」女战士亚丝翠﹙由「丑女贝蒂」的艾美莉佳法瑞拉配音﹚，她起初十分排斥这段异种间的友谊，但在一、两趟飞行之后，她就对这种情况感到很开心。

He lived in an out-of-the-way nook of the townlet, and in trying to find her course thither her eyes fell upon Mr d'Urberville standing at a street corner.

她起初没有找到他们，后来有人告诉她说，他们大多数都去参加一个私人小舞会去了，在一个同他们的农场有生意往来的卖干草和土煤的商人屋子里。

An Englishman would have called it tweed, originally a misreading of tweel, the Scots form of twill.

英格兰人会叫它粗花呢，这起初其实是tweel一词的误读，而后者是苏格兰人对twill的拼法。

If uncontained, might impose huge costs on a modernising economy.

这样一种新型传染病起初未被加以控制，结果现代化经济为之付出了巨大的代价。

The enactments of the emperors, clothed at first in the pretence of popular sanction, but afterwards emanating undisguisedly from the imperial prerogative, extend in increasing massiveness from the consolidation of Augustus''s power to the publication of the Code of Justinian.

皇帝们的各种立法起初还伪装经过群众同意，但在后来就毫不掩饰地利用皇权，从奥古斯多政权巩固后到&查斯丁尼安法典&公布，这种法规有大量的增加。

At first, Dickinson could not realize her dream of "publication" because her verses were "too ethereal and not suitable for publication" Having learned that her verses were unpublishable, she got annoyed, but had to accept this opinion as a fact.

起初，狄金森渴望发表的愿望不能如愿，其诗作被认为是&过于飘渺，不宜发表&。

Today is my sixth day of my coming back home from school.And I got a terrible headache !I felt very unsoft the whole day and dizzy.So aweful that I can't go anywhere except stay in bed.

也许生活就犹如茶之玄妙吧，平淡能让人感到更耐久更舒适的回味，而激荡起伏也许只能享有起初的快感，最终也只能留下的是无限的叹息。

The body is initially at rest , and the spring is initially unstretched.

起初物体是静止的，弹簧也未拉长。

She gently rebuff ed him, but agreed that they could be friends

她婉言拒绝了，但同意作为朋友相处。

If in the penal farm, you were sure to be criticized.

要是在劳改农场，你等着挨绳子吧！