Sometimes a poem that seems boring on first reading becomes interesting with more reading.

有时候，一首第一次读起来很无聊的诗，读多了就会变得有趣。

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On first reading, Mr Hill’s new collection, “Clavics”, does little to dispel this difficult image.

乍一读来，希尔先生的新诗集“克拉维克斯”似乎并没有消除他“晦涩”的形象。

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On first reading, these ten findings may seem too abstract to be of much practical help to architecture.

初次读来，这十个发现可能看起来太抽象而对建筑没有多少实际帮助。

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Its meaning will not be evident to you on a first reading.

其中意涵在你首度阅读时,并不明显。

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The European Parliament approved on first reading a law that would harmonise national patent legislation on genetic engineering , and would allow continent-wide patents for genetic inventions.

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It struck me on first reading as remarkably high.

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Only last week, for example, Mr Yeltsin had to intervene to persuade the Duma of the need to end three months of squabbling and back a budget for 1998 on first reading.

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