Examples
shì qing事情bǐ比wǒ men我们zuì chū最初xiǎng xiàng想象de的gèng更yán zhòng严重。
事情比我们最初想象的更严重。
It was much worse than we initially thought.
你们应该实行你们最初的计划。
You must carry out your first plan.
他已经不是我最初见他那时的那个人了。
He is not the man that he was when I first knew him.