When I first came here, I had a crummy apartment.

我刚来这儿时，曾住在一个糟糕的公寓里。

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It was a big adjustment when I first came here to play at a camp.

当我第一次去打营地赛的时候对我自己来说是个很大的适应。

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When I first came here 30 years ago, you would always hear lions roaring across the ranglands at night and see their tracks in the morning.

30年前我第一次来到这里，那时夜里经常听见狮子咆哮着穿越牧场，早晨起来还能看见它们留下的足迹。

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"When we first came here, we saw that there were few facilities to undertake a very important program, a sophisticated one like a living donor program.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

I have the freedom to pass that person because I like the trend. Suppose I have somebody else who came here with two years of chemistry in high school, got a 95 on the first test, 70 on the second test, failed the third test, failed the final, has an aggregate score of 48.

我能够选择让那人通过,因为我喜欢他的进步，假设另一个同学,学了2年的化学在高中,第一次测试得到95分，第二次70分，第三次没通过，期末考也没通过。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In the first place, I put term limits on myself when I first came here.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

American businessman, Steve Shaulis, first came here as a fruit farmer in the Taliban era.

BBC: Programme transcript

"USC students are far brighter and much more discerning than they were when I first came here, " he said.

CNN: USC sheds conservative image