"Not at first, perhaps," said the Hatter, "but you could keep it to half-past one as long as you liked."
“也许一开始没有，”帽商说，“不过你想要多久就可以把时间保持到一点半。”
Ramkumar did not at first oppose the ways of his temperamental brother.
拉姆库玛儿并不是第一次反对这个喜怒无常的弟弟。
"I have missed it, not at first, but now I want to get back into it," he said yesterday.
“我错过了，并不是在刚开始，但是我想重操旧业，”他昨天说到。
Not at first, when Greece, Spain and the others used the euro’s low interest rates as an excuse to party.
不是在一开始当希腊、西班牙和其他国家以欧元的低利率为借口进行狂欢的时候。
The Peacock, they say, did not at first have the beautiful feathers in which he now takes so much pride.
人们说，最开始孔雀并没有他现在自傲的美丽羽毛。
There had not at first been time for her to think of the changed relations which his declaration had introduced;
最初她还没有来得及想到，克莱尔已经向她表明了心迹，他们的关系已经发生变化了；
She then took the little key, and opened it, trembling, but could not at first see anything plainly, because the Windows were shut.
于是她拿了那把小钥匙，颤抖着打开了小房间，但是因为窗户都是关着的，一开始什么也没能看清楚。
While it might not at first seem like there's a real need for this level of manipulation and flexibility, the analogy of programming comes to mind again.
最初看来可能并不是真正需要这一级别的处理和灵活性，但是我们想到了与编程的类比。
At first we spoke in hushed voices and crept about in order not to alarm them.
起先我们说话时压低声音，走路蹑手蹑脚的，以免惊动他们。
Perhaps struggle unfolds first, not at an economic or social level, but over the appropriation of air, essential to life itself.
也许首先展开的不是在经济或社会层面上的斗争，而是为占有对生命本身必不可少的空气而斗争。
At first I thought he was shy, but then I discovered he was just not interested in other people.
起先我以为他腼腆，后来才发现他对别人没兴趣。
The first English settlers to establish a permanent colony in America did it not at Plymouth but along the shore of the James River west of Chesapeake Bay.
第一批在美国建立永久殖民地的英国定居者不是在普利茅斯，而是在切萨皮克湾以西的詹姆斯河沿岸。
Says Korn/Ferry senior partner Dennis Carey: "I can't think of a single search I've done where a board has not instructed me to look at sitting CEOs first."
光辉国际公司的大股东丹尼斯·凯里说：“我想不起我所做过的哪次招聘里，董事会不是要求我先注意那些在职的首席执行官们。”
At the age of twenty and with his mother's support, Xu set off for the first time, leaving behind not only his mother but his new wife as well.
徐在20岁那年，在母亲的支持下第一次出发了，留下的不仅是他的母亲，还有他的新婚妻子。
The very first thing that scientists discovered with a mission to another planet was that Venus was not at all the earthly paradise that fiction had portrayed.
科学家们在前往另一颗行星的任务中发现的第一件事就是，金星根本不是小说中描绘的人间天堂。
Usually characters change as the story goes on, so the theme you get at the beginning might not be true at the end! For this reason, you need to read through the whole text first.
通常角色会随着故事的发展而变化，所以你在开始时读到的主题在结尾时可能不是真的！出于这个原因，你需要先通读整篇课文。
She did not know what it was, because at first, she could scarcely distinguish it from the wind itself.
她不知道那是什么，因为起初她几乎不能把它和风本身区别开来。
First, most people do not realise that there are strong commercial agendas at work to keep them in passive consumption mode.
首先，大多数人没有意识到强大的商业议程正在起作用，让他们处于被动消费模式中。
You're not supposed to start eating first if there are older people at the table.
如果餐桌上有年纪更大的人，你就不应该先吃。
First, at least some of the observed differences between the enzymes of the Atlantic and Pacific fish populations were not random, but were the result of evolutionary adaptation.
首先，至少在大西洋和太平洋鱼类种群中观察到的一些酶的差异不是随机的，而是进化适应的结果。
But, in fact, he did not object to her as strongly as he had at first.
不过，事实上，他并不像当初那样强烈地不喜欢她了。
He once told me that he was very nervous at first. He was not only trying to learn this hard new job but also a new language.
他曾经告诉我他一开始很紧张。他不仅在努力学习这一艰难的新工作，而且在努力学习一门新的语言。
The noise was quite disruptive at first, but after about four minutes the subjects were doing just as well on their tasks as control subjects who were not exposed to noise.
起初，受试者会被噪音扰乱，但大约四分钟后，他们在任务中的表现与未受噪音影响的对照组受试者一样好。
At first, I thought the challenge would be to train her to sit, to heel, to walk calmly beside us and not go wildly chasing the neighborhood rabbits.
一开始，我以为挑战在于训练它坐下、跟在我们后面、安静地走在我们身边，而不是疯狂地追逐附近的兔子。
She is not intimidated at all, and she criticises me in exactly the same way she did when I was first unpublished and I was starting.
她完全没有被吓到，她批评我的方式和我刚开始创作且从没发表过作品的时候一模一样。
At first, I did not know what the word "exam" meant.
起初，我不知道 “exam” 这个词是什么意思。
At first, I did not know what the word "exam" meant.
起初，我不知道 “exam” 这个词是什么意思。
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