起先

• The first songs of the ax cutting through the wood, interfered with my thoughts .
  起先斧头劈开木材的声音打断了我的思潮。
• He opens his eyes, blankly at first, then with a painful effort to remember。
  他睁开了眼睛，起先呆呆地，随后就挣扎着开始思索。
• At first she was against pen, and suspicious of him, she was his partisan now .
  起先她反对小潘，怀疑他不怀好意，现在却跟他很投契。
• What she proposed to me happened to herself, and she married very much to her advantage .
  她起先对我说的话却实现在她身上；她嫁了个好丈夫。
• Spinning futilely at first, the drivers of the engine at last caught the rails .
  那机车的主动轮起先转了一阵也没有用处，可到底咬住了路轨啦。
• His father who had begun life as an advanced nationalist, had modified his views early .
  他父亲年轻时，起先是个激进的民族主义者，但不久便改变观点。
• I had been of opinion from the first that mary could only be withheld from ruin by her mind .
  我起先劝玛丽说，她只有运用自己的理智才能免于身败名裂。
• Moore listened at first with his eyes cast down, but soon he furtively raised them .
  穆尔起先是低挂着眼睛谛听着，可是，过了一会儿，他悄悄地抬起眼来。
• Others who were named by the informer at first confessed themselves christians, and then denied it .
  另外有些被告发的人起先供认自己是基督徒，后来又否认。
• She threw at me a very naughty look, so naughty that i would not kiss her good-night at first .
  她对我作出非常淘气的表情，淘气得我起先都不想吻她和道晚安了。