起初

Seeing the haloes around Mary's head and Jesus, we assume that this is a religious image. But wait: the three "wise men" from the east (Persian magi, priestly astrologers) are there, as we expect -- but two of them are having a fistfight! What on earth is going on?

起初，看到环绕在玛利亚头部和耶稣身体周围的光环的时候，我们可能会想这是一幅宗教画，但是等等，虽说东方来的三位&智者&（即波斯的三位博士———神职占星家）如我们预料的那样也在画里，但其中的两个正在一起厮打，究竟发生了什么事？

To start with I must admit that at first I harbored reservations about a mixed marriage,….

应用： a。首先我应该承认，起初她的外貌并没有给我留下什么印象。

It is the customary fate of new truths to ~ as heresies and to end as superstitions.

新出现 的真理往往遭遇这样的命运；起初被视作异端，最后被奉为迷信。

At first I hesitated because he said I am not familiar with the name.

我起初犹豫，因为他说的名字我不熟悉。

At first all of us city boys hiked on very sore feet.

起初我们这些城里的男孩把脚都走痛了。

At first all of us city boys hiked on sore feet.

起初，我们这些城市里的孩子们迈着疼痛的双脚徒步旅行。

At first they just hurtled through a maze of twisting passages .

起初，他们只是通过一个由扭曲通道组成的迷宫。

First there was medicine, via the "nervous disorders"; next psychiatry, when it set out to discover the etiology of mental illnesses, focusing its gaze first on "excess," then onanism, then frustration, then "frauds against procreation," but especially when it annexed the whole of the sexual perversions as its own province; criminal justice, too, which had long been concerned with sexuality, particularly in the form of "heinous" crimes and crimes against nature, but which, toward the middle of the nineteenth century, broadened its jurisdiction to include petty offenses, minor indecencies, insignificant perversions; and lastly, all those social controls, cropping up at the end of the last century, which screened the sexuality of couples, parents and children, dangerous and endangered adolescents-undertaking to protect, separate, and forewarn, signaling perils everywhere, awakening people's attention, calling for diagnoses, piling up reports, organizing therapies.

首当其冲的是医学，它藉由的是&神经紊乱症&；精神病学后发先至，它着手探求精神疾病的病因。起初它目不转睛于&性无度&，接着是手淫，而后是欲求不满，而后是&反生育欺诈&，更为特别是，它将性倒错的研究领域，整个地占为己有。刑事审判也参与其中，它对于&性&的关注由来已久，特别是那些&十恶不赦&，有违人伦的性犯罪。但是，十九世纪中期，它开始大显身手，轻微犯，未成年犯、无足轻重的性倒错都难逃法网。最后，所有这些在19世纪末突现的社会控制，承担着防护、隔离与预警的责任，于是，关于&性&的危言四起、触目惊心，诊断&性&已时不我待，&性&报告堆积如山，&性&治疗大张旗鼓，以此掩护夫妻们、父母们与儿童们、以及处于或步入&危险的青春期&少年们的&性&万无一失。

First there was medicine, via the "nervous disorders"; next psychiatry, when it set out to discover the etiology of mental illnesses, focusing its gaze first on "excess," then onanism, then frustration, then "frauds against procreation," but especially when it annexed the whole of the sexual perversions as its own province; criminal justice, too, which had long been concerned with sexuality, particularly in the form of "heinous" crimes and crimes against nature, but which, toward the middle of the nineteenth century, broadened its jurisdiction to include petty offenses, minor indecencies, insignificant perversions; and lastly, all those social controls, cropping up at the end of the last century, which screened the sexuality of couples, parents and children, dangerous and endangered adolescents-undertaking to protect, separate, and forewarn, signaling perils everywhere, awakening people's attention, calling for diagnoses, piling up reports, organizing therapies.

首当其冲的是医学，它藉由的是&神经紊乱症&；精神病学后发先至，它着手探求精神疾病的病因。起初它目不转睛于&性无度&，接着是手淫，而后是欲求不满，而后是&反生育欺诈&，更为特别是，它将性倒错的研究领域，整个地占为己有。刑事审判也参与其中，它对于&性&的关注由来已久，特别是那些&十恶不赦&，有违人伦的性犯罪。但是，十九世纪中期，它开始大显身手，轻微犯，未成年犯、无足轻重的性倒错都难逃法网。最后，所有这些在19世纪末突现的社会控制，承担着防护、隔离与预警的责任，于是，关于&性&的危言四起、触目惊心，诊断&性&已时不我待，&性&报告堆积如山，&性&治疗大张旗鼓，以此确保夫妻们、父母们与儿童们、以及处于或步入&危险的青春期&少年们的&性&万无一失。

Capital securitisation, anew sparkle in world financial renovation since 1970s, was originally used torevitalize the bank capital that is short of fluidity and then played an important role indisposing the non-performing loans.

资产证券化是20世纪70年代以来世界金融创新的一个新亮点，起初主要是用来盘活银行流动性较差的资产，后来在不良金融资产处置方面也起到了重要作用。

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！