at the beginning of something的意思|示意

Besides providing something to do for boring life, another advantage of the leisure-time activities is that participants could make more new friends with even the strangers at the beginning.

除了可以排解无聊的生活，业余活动的另一个优势就是可以帮助参加者结识新朋友，哪怕对方最开始只是个陌生人。

At the same time, the conservatism of users pushes it back to something known and even convenient (at least from the beginning).

同时，用户之间交流的机会增加了，这使得一些广为人知甚至成为惯例（至少刚开始是这样）的事情开始褪色。

References are something you should think about at the beginning of your interview process and not just at the end when you are under immediate pressure to provide them.

举荐人是你在面试开始之前就应该要考虑的事情，而不是在面试快接近尾声时突然被要求提供时慌慌张张的去想应该说谁。

"Of course, at the beginning, you think, 'If I say something to one of these players, how is he going to react?" confesses Senderos.

森德罗斯承认：当然，刚开始，你会认为如果这对他们说些什么，他们会是怎样的反应？

This sentence literally means "It's needless to ask", which is used at the beginning of a reply, followed by an affirmative deduction about something.

“不用问”意思是“不需要问”，用于对话中下句的开头，后边是说话者对某情况做出的一个非常肯定的推断。

But we can do something that will benefit them for all of their life. We can help children lay foundations for their future and learn more knowledge at the beginning of their study.

能为他们从小打好基础，多学一点本领，做一点应试体系下孩子无法接触到的有益尝试，无论怎么讲也都是孩子们会终生受益的。