When the 5th century BC Greek doctor hippocrates made a bitter powder from willow tree bark, he certainly had no idea that he was taking the first step towards what is now a multi-billion dollar industry

公元前五世纪,希腊医生希波克拉底以柳树皮制成一种苦药粉,当然他并不知道他所跨出的这一步,至今竟会成为价值数十亿美元的产业。

属类：综合句库--

delineation of channels is the first step of geologic evaluation

勾划河道的轮廓是地质解译的第一步。

属类：综合句库--

The stock market’s tumble, which has caused a loss of $1 trillion in paper in paper wealth, is but the first step in a process that must sober the nation

股票市场暴跌,造成了一万亿美元的票面损失,这仅仅是足以让美国人开始清醒的第一步。

属类：社会文化-各国概况-

As a first step in any transmission or overdrive service, diagnosis of the trouble should be made in an attempt to pinpoint the trouble in the malfunctioning unit.

故障诊断作为任何变速器或超速器维修工作的首要步骤,应该尽力在工作不正常的部件上准确地判定发生故障的地方。

属类：工程技术-汽车-

A huge tree that fills one's arms grows form a tiny seedling; a nine-storied tower rises from a heap of earth; A thousand li journey starts with the first step

合抱之木,生于毫末,九层之台,起于累土;千里之行,始于足下

属类：习语名句-古文名句-

The first step in changing a car tire is to loosen the wheel.

换轮胎的第一步是卸下车轮。

属类：综合句库--

The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.--Cecil

获得知识的第一步是要知道自己无知。--塞西尔

属类：习语名句-名言-

The first step is a joint effort between the Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyNASABoeingand Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. to build a mock-up of a repairable satellite called NextSat in a couple of years

计划的第一步,是由国防部高级研究计划局、国家航空航天局、波音公司和鲍尔航天与技术公司联手,在未来几年内制造一颗名为NextSat(下一代卫星)的可修理卫星实物模型。

属类：综合句库--

If a person or company plans to build a house, his (its)first step will be to find a suitable piece of land. Next he (it)will find an experienced builder.

假如个人或公司计划要建一座建筑物,第一步就要选择一块合适的地皮。下一步需要找一位有经验的建筑商。

属类：工程技术-建筑-建筑设计

In establishing a standard cost system, the first step is the creation of standards. To setting standards is very complex, one that requires skills that often surpass the expertise possessed by the average accountant.

建立标准成本系统的第一步便是标准的设置,这是一项很复杂的工作,需要具备超出普通会计人员的能力。

属类：经济金融-会计学-

Build personal relationships: The first step to opening any market anywhere is to find and cultivate customers.

建立个人感情联系:无论在任何地方,开拓任何市场的第一步是寻找和培养用户。

属类：单位简介-公司简介-

Women, she says, were perceived as“natural, animal like”creatures whose childbearing was seen not as the first step in an honored career as mother but simply as a“biological activity”

她说,人们把妇女看成是“天生与动物相似的”生物,并不认为她们生儿育女是负起母亲光荣职责的第一步,而是把它视作一种纯“生物性的活动。”

属类：综合句库--

A medically supervised treatment program for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances.Such a program is used as a first step in overcoming physiological or psychological addiction.

解毒疗法一种净化酒精或瘾君子体内毒素的受医疗监督的治疗方案。该方案是克服生理或心理中毒的第一步

属类：综合句库--

The first step in solving a problem is to tell someone about it.--John Peter Flynn

解决问题的第一步,是把它告诉一个人。--弗林

属类：习语名句-名人名言-启智篇

The first step to giving up smoking is to restrict oneself to two or three cigarettes a day.

戒烟的第一步,是限制自己每天只吸两到三支烟。

属类：综合句库--

The military operation was the first step in a plan to crush the uprising.

军事行动是镇压起义的第一步。

属类：综合句库--

Air must be released from the tube or tire as a first step in tire removal. The bead on one side of the tire should then be pushed in toward the center of the rim.

开始拆卸轮胎时,首先应从内胎中排除空气,轮胎的轮缘一侧应推向轮辋的中心

属类：工程技术-汽车-

How to Make the First Step in Scientific Researches.

科研如何迈开第一步

属类：应用文体-论文标题-

adherence of the particle to the cell membrane is the first step in the process

粒子附着到细胞膜上是这个过程的第一步。

属类：综合句库--

The work lawyers do is in fact indispensable for our society. What is more, studying law is often the first step to a career in politics.

律师的工作对于我们的社会来说是非常必要的。再说,学习法律往往是从政的第一步。

属类：社会文化-新闻报道-

By the time of the Party's Thirteenth National Congress next year, we shall have taken a first step towards our goal, but that's all.

明年党的十三大要前进一步,但还不能完成

属类：时事政治-邓小平选集-政治体制改革

Nameplate rating is only a guide to transformer application, and should only be used as a first step in the selection process.

铭牌额定值仅是变压器应用的一个指导,只是选择过程的第一步。

属类：工程技术-电力英语-

The creatures, which normal prey on pest insects, had been altered in a first step toward making them more effective against pests

那些正常捕食害虫的动物,首先是改变基因使其朝更有效的捕食害虫能力方面发展了。

属类：综合句库--

Well, the first step is telling the truth.

哦,第一步是讲真话。

属类：社会文化-热点文章-富爸爸穷爸爸

A three-hundred-mile journey starts with the first step .

千里之行,始于足下

属类：简明汉英词典--

Reconnaissance of the area as the first step , the locator, using available topographic maps and sometimes an airplane, explores the area.

区域踏勘是定线测量的第一步。定线人员利用现有地形图,有时利用飞机对该区域进行探测。

属类：工程技术-交通-交通土建工程

Confession is the first step to repentance.

认罪是悔罪的开端。

属类：综合句库--

What is defeat? Nothing but the first step to something better.--Wendell Philips

什么叫失败?失败是到达较佳境地的第一步。--菲利浦

属类：习语名句-名人名言-事业篇

Shrek took his first step towards movie stardom when his book caught the fancy of the two young children of movie producer John H. Williams

史瑞克迈向明星之路的第一步,在于他的书吸引了电影制作人约翰威廉的两个小孩喜爱。

属类：综合句库--

The first step in putting together a mastermind alliance is to adopt a definite purpose for it to attain.(Who would board train without knowing where it went?)

使智囊团发挥功效的第一个步骤,就是设立一个明确的目标(谁愿意搭乘目的地不明确的火车呢?)

属类：应用文体-规则说明-