Fledge

(verb.) grow feathers; 'The young sparrows are fledging already'.

(verb.) decorate with feathers; 'fledge an arrow'.

(verb.) feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight.

编辑:马克斯

• Blair joined me at Milliken's Bend a full-fledged general, without having served in a lower grade. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I have the best hopes of you both, with your proud distinctions--a pair of half-fledged eaglets. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• His first act was to make me a full-fledged chieftain with the rank I had won by my combats the first few weeks of my captivity among them. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The little singing-bird that never was fledged, was long kept in a cage by a guardian of your appointing, well enough known to our old intriguer here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• As to what I dare, I'm a old bird now, as has dared all manner of traps since first he was fledged, and I'm not afeerd to perch upon a scarecrow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

整理:莱昂内尔