Although employers continue to cut jobs amid a fledgling economic recovery, the U.S.unemployment rate for January dipped below 10 percent to 9.7 percent.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

I was a fledgling pianist.

我当时是个菜鸟钢琴手

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With a fledgling recovery gaining strength, it is easy to forget how close major industrialized nations came to economic collapse less than two years ago, an outcome that almost surely would have triggered a worldwide depression rivaling the Great Depression of the 1930s.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21