Now the word "first" begins to take on a much bigger range of significances than we might at first think.

现在看来，“初/先“一词,比我们起先所想的有更加重大的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And um, eventually, at first, I was just, you know, sitting in, but then I had to take a licensing exam

一开始我只坐在那里，可是之后还要进行一次许可考试，

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And that's what Neal Cassady was to them at first, a kind of wanderer who wanted to be in their intellectual, but bohemian, circle.

刚开始时尼尔卡萨迪对他们就是这样，想要进入他们这个既有高才智，又放荡不羁的圈子的流浪汉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So at first this might seem very limited in terms of functionality for you but when I first logged in to that cloud, recall that my prompt looked like this.

从字面上来看，好像,看不出来它是干嘛的，但是当我第一次登录到,“云“，好像是这样的提示。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And at first this was done by Davidson and Germer, and they were American scientists who tried diffracting electrons from a nickel crystal.

这个实验首先是由，美国科学家Davidson和Germer完成的,他们尝试从镍晶体中衍射电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

At first I wasn't sure if I could continue it.

起初我不确定能否继续经营下去。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

So, that's a funny property of conventional mortgages -that the mortgage balance declines very slowly at first and then it falls rapidly when it comes to maturity.

这是普通贷款很有意思的特性,即贷款余额在起初减少的非常缓慢,但随着到期日的临近,便会加速递减

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So, what I want to do is, I want to discuss the scientific notion of language, at first restricting myself to systems like English and Dutch and American sign language and Navajo and so on.

因此,我想做的是,我想来谈谈语言的科学定义,首先我会将自己限定在,诸如英语,荷兰语,美国手语,或迪瓦霍语等语言系统之下

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Well,at first glance,you might think the answer is, look,you exist,you're alive,whatever it is--; as I said,I'm just going to be loose now, I'm going to put aside all the careful distinctions I just drew-- I'm still around as long as my body is P-functioning.

一开始，你可能会觉得答案是这样，你存在就是存活，无论;,我现在稍微放松一点规定，我要把刚才提出的区别放在一边-,只要我的身体还有人格功能我就是活着的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And you know, at first, the student, he just had no joy in whatsoever.

而且，刚开始的时候，那个学生无论对什么都没兴趣。

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It can be a little bit intimidating at first.

刚开始会有点恐慌。

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Next time to the Enlightenment and some people whom you might not think of at first glance would seem terribly enlightened.

下一次课是关于启蒙运动的,有些你们乍看之下绝对想不到的人物,却引领了那个时代

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Yeats at first thought to call this poem "What Is Joy?"

他刚开始想命名为，什么是欢欣“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

At first there was doubt and controversy, which has completely gone away, as more and more examples of this writing have become available and scholars are now able, by and large, to be confident that they know what these things say.

开始的时候还充斥着质疑的声音,而现在已经无可争议,因为已经有,越来越多这样的文字出土,学者们现在,对辨认出这些东西的含义,相当有自信了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's, because sometimes it's generally tough at first,

学习语言最一开始的时候总会很困难，

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it's always going to be hard at first,

一开始总是很难，

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