at the start

It always takes the class a while to settle down at the start of the lesson.

那个班一上课总得过一会儿才能安静下来。

The runners jockeyed for position at the start.

赛跑选手力求抢占起跑有利位置。

Councillor Paul Tisley will be in attendance at the start of the meeting to welcome us

议员保罗·提斯里将在会议开始时出席，以欢迎我们。

Recent losses have cancelled out any profits made at the start of the year.

最近的亏损与年初的盈利相抵消。

Passengers were piped aboard ship at the start of the cruise.

游客在管乐迎宾曲中登船开始水上游。

Most large businesses were collectivized at the start of the war.

大部分大型企业在战争初期都转为了公有。

How do you plead? (= said by the judge at the start of the trial)

你有何辩护？

Individuals can reduce their contribution by creating less waste at the start — for instance, buying reusable products and recycling.

人们可以通过减少制造废物来降低自身的影响，比如购买可重复使用的产品和循环利用。

At the start of the project we were raring to go but unfortunately we've lost a lot of our early enthusiasm.

这个项目开始的时候我们都满怀热情,但不幸的是我们现在已经没有当初那么热心了.

The runners lined up at the start.

赛跑选手们在起跑点排好队.

Always say at the start of an application that you're applying for such-and-such a job because…

写求职信务必一开头就说明你申请某职务，因为…

Most large businesses were collectivized at the start of the war

大部分大型企业在战争初期都转为了公有。

Each player has two bishops at the start of the game.

棋赛开始时,每名棋手有两只象.

There were about 300 million tons of grain in the fields at the start of the harvest.

收获伊始地里大概有3亿吨粮食。

At the start the work seemed complex, difficult, heartbreakingly slow.

开始时这件工作似乎十分复杂困难, 而且慢得令人伤心.

The excitement at the start of a race can really get the adrenalin flowing .

起跑时的激动确实能使人热血沸腾。

At the start of her career, Farrant studied recalcitrant seeds," such as avocados, coffee and lychee.

在职业生涯之初，法兰特研究了“顽拗性种子”，比如鳄梨、咖啡豆和荔枝。

At the start of junior high, the math achievement test scores of the students with a growth mind-set were comparable to those of students who displayed a fixed mind-set.

在刚上初中时，具有成长思维模式的学生的数学测试分数与显示出固定思维模式学生的分数相当。

Councillor Paul Tisley will be in attendance at the start of the meeting to welcome us.

议员保罗·提斯里将在会议开始时出席，以欢迎我们。

The talks had been hard going at the start.

会谈从一开始就举步维艰。

The players were tense at the start of the game.

队员们在比赛开始时很紧张.

They invested money in the company right at the start and the gamble paid off.

他们一开始就把资金投到这家公司，结果这一冒险获得了成功。

At the start of this year, foreigners living in Italy amounted to 4 ． 56 million of a total population of 60 ． 6 million, or 7 ． 5 percent, with immigrants' children accounting for an even larger percentage of births in Italy ．

今年年初,居住在意大利的外国人达456万人,占意大利总人口6060万人的7.5%,其中移民子女在意大利出生人口中所占比例更大。

The excitement at the start of a race can really get the adrenalin flowing.

起跑时的激动确实能使人热血沸腾。

Though the talks had been hard going at the start, they had become more friendly.

虽然会谈在初期进行得很艰难，但是后来气氛变得友好些了。

At the start of the last over, bowled by Chris Lewis, the Welsh county were favourites.

在最后一轮由克里斯·刘易斯连续投出6个有效球之前，威尔士郡队本来胜券在握。

The army numbered four to five thousand at the start.

这支军队开始才有四五千人.

Everyone was in a conciliatory mood at the start of the meeting.

会议开始时,人人都抱着和解的想法.

The first day of term, which seemed so far away at the start of the summer holidays, is looming.

暑假刚开始时，开学显得那么遥远，现在却近在眼前。

Europe, with Germany literally and figuratively at its centre, is still at the start of a remarkable transformation.

以德国作为地理以及比喻意义上的中心的欧洲仍处于巨大变革的初期。