He didn't like the plan at first, but we managed to bring him round.

他起初并不喜欢这个计划，但我们最终使他回心转意了。

《牛津词典》

I found the job tiring at first but I soon got used to it.

起初我觉得这份工作很累人，但很快就习惯了。

《牛津词典》

I was the first to ask him awkward questions but there'll be harder ones to come.

我是第一个问他尴尬问题的人，但后面还会有更棘手的问题。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

But she is waiting to hear from two other schools, including her first choice, the University of California at Berkeley.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

STUDENT: Right, we're going to do that in a second, but the answer is Fibonacci numbers, we define the first two.

学生：听不见：,我们马上会试一试，但是答案是斐波那契数列，我们可以定义下最初的两个数。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The first sentence of your passage: "There is no art but one delivered to mankind that hath not the works of nature for his principal object."

你们篇子上的第一句话：，“只有一种艺术,当它传播到人间时,不带有自然的痕迹“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But this weekend, European negotiators - and Germany - may well have to decide whether they care enough about tiny Cyprus taking responsibility for its own banking problems to let it become not just the first Eurozone country to raid ordinary bank deposits, but also the first to leave the euro.

BBC: Is Cyprus small enough?

Who brought the first gnome to England will probably never be proven, but the first to record using the figures in his garden was Charles Isham at Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire who by the 1870s had a series of gnome tableaux in among his giant rock garden.

BBC: From the section Magazine

Obama was not only the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar but also the first to call it by that name, conceding ground in a long-running dispute.

CNN: From Burma to Myanmar: Land of rising expectations