2baptism of/by fireFIRSTa difficult or painful first experience of something 火的洗礼,初次的痛苦经历[考验]
The campaign has been a baptism of fire.
这场运动等于是一次火的洗礼。
Examples from the Corpus
baptism of/by fire• It had been a baptism by fire, but she had come through.• It is almost impossible to see where events will lead but you are going through a baptism of fire.• An as-yet-unproven system called J-STARS, getting its baptism of fire in the Gulf, illustrates the point.• My baptism of fire had been with Leon Brittan who was ChiefSecretary until the 1983 generalelection.• This was our baptism of fire and we learned many lessons.• Beige popsters take a vicariouspride in the slowbaptism of fire that their chosengenre and its protagonistsunderwent.• Diana admits that she wasn't easy to handle during that baptism of fire.
—baptismal /bæpˈtɪzməl/adjectiveadj [only before noun]
a baptismal font (=container for holding the water used at baptism)