Officials initially blamed "insurgent activity" for the casualties, but later said it was possible the soldiers were hit by friendly fire.

VOA: standard.2009.11.07

Now, efficiency is obviously an important consideration when you're designing code, although I have to admit, at least for me, I usually want to at least start initially with code that works, and then worry about how I might go back and come up with more efficient implementation.

现在，当你设计程序的时候效率,是不得不考虑的问题，虽然我必须承认，至少对我来说,我是先担心程序能不能运行,再去把它的效率优化的,我喜欢可靠点的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

You can go buy a score of the Beatles, for example--although they didn't design this initially with music, but after the fact,people sort of listen to it and make written-- put in written form what had originally been just an aurally conceived artistic statement.

你完全可以去，比如说买一些披头士的乐谱，但是他们当初写歌的时候并没有想用乐谱的形式传播，事实是人们听了他们的歌，再把它们写下来-,人们只是把一项为听觉设计的艺术品用笔记录下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Many Western countries initially hailed the election as a victory for the democratic process.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

And so similarly as Gmail's priority inbox, it's gonna be pretty flawed for a lot of us at least initially because it just doesn't know the answers a priori correctly unless we teach it or program it to be better. There is also another flaw in here or multiple flaws arguably.

类似于Gmail的优先收件箱，在起初使用时对大多数人来说它是有缺陷的,因为它不知道如何正确判断优先级,除非我们事先告诉它或编写程序改良它,另外这里存在一个或多个漏洞，可以说是缺陷。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

This is welcome news for U.S.health officials, who initially had to consider the possibility that the new flu strain's impact could mirror the devastation of the 1918 influenza pandemic that led to tens of millions of deaths worldwide.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

"We will get some vaccine at the beginning of the fall we won't be able to vaccinate everybody initially, so we'll be identifying priority groups, but because we had advance contracts for vaccine we'll get very big supplies through the fall and winter,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.31