Learn it, lad: tis hard only at first.

学吧，小伙子，只有开头很难。

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This may sound counterintuitive, but only at first: then you glimpse its awesome logic.

这听起来好像有违直觉，但仅在刚开始的时候：然后，你就发现原来理论中的混乱逻辑。

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At first his jealousy only showed in small ways – he didn't mind me talking to other guys.

开始时，他的猜忌只是小小地表现出来–他并不介意我和其他男孩子说话。

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President Obama, at his first major press conference, called on a reporter for a Web-only operation, the Huffington Post.

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First of all, it will only be a minute or two at a time, maybe once or twice a lecture.

首先，每次只有一两分钟，一堂课最多不超过两次。

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It took me seven comparisons, because I can take advantage of the fact I know I only ever have to look at the first element of each sub-list. Those are the only things I need to compare, and when I run out of one list, I just add the rest of the list in.

进行了7次对比，因为我可以利用我知道的优势：,每次只需要比较每个子列表的第一个元素,那才是我需要进行对比的内容,当一个列表的元素处理完了,只需要将另一个列表剩下的元素直接添加进去。

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Just after the Genoa summit, he told a foreign-ministry audience that it was only at first sight that globalisation reduced the role of the state.

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The only problem, at first, was that the peptides only functioned in a test tube.

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Still, the company plans to sell the Rs One Lakh only in India at first.

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