At first; originally.

开始；起初，最初。

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At first, each had also suspect that the love between us, after all, did not originally conceived as perfect, so delicate, so romantic.

起初彼此还曾怀疑我们之间的爱情，毕竟没有当初设想的那样完美、那样精致、那样浪漫。

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