fledgling
n. (刚学会飞的)幼鸟; 无经验的人; 乳臭小儿
A fledgling is a young bird that has its feathers and is learning to fly.
You use fledgling to describe a person, organization, or system that is new or without experience.
...the sound practical advice he gave to fledgling writers.
他给初出茅庐的作家提出的可靠实用的建议
...Russia's fledgling democracy.
俄罗斯新兴的民主
1. any new participant in some activity
2. young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying
1. of a young bird just having acquired its flight feathers;
2. young and inexperienced;
Nursed the fledgling Business through an economic downturn.
经济衰退中精心料理刚起步的生意.
Thriller was enthusiastically adopted by the then fledgling music television channel MTV , which launched in 1981.
受到了当时仍羽翼未丰的音乐电视频道MTV——1981年成立——的狂热推崇.
A steep descent in an airplane like this would have blacked out a fledgling.
飞机作这样的急速下降本来是会使缺乏经验的人眼前发黑的.
The news for fledgling network CW was much better.
发展迅速的CW电视网情况则好得多.
Nor yet has Iraq's fledgling national army, the nearest thing to a national institution, broken apart.
同时伊拉克那不成熟的国家军队, 其最基本的国家机构, 也没有分裂.