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At first

起初

at first

起初

These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical.

这些新形式起初主要由学者创作、由业余演员表演，但在英国，正如在西欧其他各地一样，职业演员阶层的壮大正使戏剧趋于大众化，无论它是新是旧，是古典的还是中世纪的，是文学性的还是闹剧性的。

These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible.

这些变化是逐渐发生的，起初几乎察觉不到。