English Dictionary

unfledged

IPA（発音記号）

/ʌnˈflɛdʒd/

形容詞

比較不可 比喩的用法

Not having feathers; (of a bird) not yet having developed its wings and feathers and become able to fly. / (figuratively) Not yet fully grown or developed; not yet mature.

日本語の意味

（鳥の場合）羽毛がなく、翼が発達しておらず飛ぶことができない状態 / （比喩的に）未熟で、完全に成長していない状態

The unfledged chicks huddled together in the nest, their bare bodies exposed to the cold morning air.

まだ羽毛のない雛たちは巣の中で体を寄せ合い、冷たい朝の空気に身をさらしていた。

意味（1）

Not having feathers; (of a bird) not yet having developed its wings and feathers and become able to fly.

[…] we, poor unfledged, Have never wing’d from view o’ the nest, nor know not What air’s from home.

意味（2）

(figuratively) Not yet fully grown or developed; not yet mature.

Temptations have since then been born to’s; for In those unfledged days was my wife a girl; Your precious self had then not cross’d the eyes Of my young play-fellow.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Inexperienced, like a tyro or novice.

He had long since determined that Magdaléna should marry no one of the sons of his moneyed friends, nor yet any of the sprouting lawyers or unfledged business youths who made up the masculine half of the younger fashionable set.