| 释义 | a baptism of/by fireidiom
 a very difficult first experience of something: 初次的痛苦经历;火的洗礼
 I was given a million-dollar project to manage in my first month - it was a real baptism of fire.第一个月就让我管理一个百万美元的项目——这可是个严峻的考验。
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Beginnings and starts
 advent
 baptism
 beginning
 birth
 commencement
 dawn
 initiation
 introduction
 jumping-off point
 kick off
 onset
 opening
 outbreak
 square
 starter
 starting time
 the thin end of the wedgeidiom
 thin
 trigger
 zero hour
 
 
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