in the beginning

起初

例句与用法：

In the beginning, John did good work at school.

开始时约翰在学校的成绩不错。

In the beginning, Sanford Carter was ashamed of becoming an army cook.

一开始，桑弗卡特觉得在部队里当炊事兵是怪可耻的。

Lastly, to conclude this part; as we said in the beginning, that the act of envy had somewhat in it of witchcraft, so there is no other cure of envy, but the cure of witchcraft; and that is, to remove the lot(as they call it) and to lay it upon another.

最后让笔者赘言几句来结束这个部分。如本文开篇所言，嫉妒行为有几分巫术的性质，因此治嫉妒的最好方法就是治巫术的方法，也就是移开世人所谓的“符咒”, 使之镇在别人头上。