喜樂美語
  1. 1

    A young bird that has just grown feathers strong enough to fly, but is still new and at it. The word is used just as often for a person, business, group, or idea that is new and still learning or growing, like a 'fledgling company' that just started out.

    （名詞）剛長羽毛的雛鳥；（形容詞）剛起步的、新生的

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組成fledge (to grow flight feathers) + -ling (a young one, as in 'duckling') - a young thing just able to fly.

同家族的字

  • ducklingshares '-ling', meaning a young one
  • goslingshares the same ending, meaning a young goose

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

fledglingadj/ˈflɛd͡ʒ.lɪŋ/

  • 1

    Untried or inexperienced.

    • His trenchant criticisms of the Church's repression […] include a discussion of the considerable 1938 success of the fledgling NODL in getting magazines removed from various points of sale.
  • 2

    Emergent or rising.

    • Harry Boland was born in Dublin in 1884 and educated with his younger brother Gerry in Clontarf. His father James, who greatly influenced him was politically active in the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the fledgling GAA. Harry Boland fought at the GPO in April 1916 and was interned in Dartmoor and Lewes jail.
    • Less than 24 hours later, Aker’s fledgling green energy and technology unit, Aker Horizons, revealed it had landed a bigger catch, with its planned purchase of Roscommon native Eddie O’Connor’s Mainstream Renewable Power for up to €1 billion.

fledglingnoun/ˈflɛd͡ʒ.lɪŋ/

  • 1

    A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).

  • 2

    An insect that has just fledged, i.e. undergone its final moult to become an adult or imago.

  • 3

    An immature, naïve or inexperienced person.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。