Ambition
[æm'bɪʃ(ə)n] or [æm'bɪʃən]
解释:
(noun.) a strong drive for success.
(noun.) a cherished desire; 'his ambition is to own his own business'.
(verb.) have as one's ambition.
奥德丽整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
(n.) An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
(v. t.) To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
录入:罗宾逊
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Desire of superiority, desire of distinction.[2]. Longing, yearning, aspiration.
录入:雷蒙
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Aspiration, emulation, appetition
ANT:Indifference, inappetency, contentment, moderation
手打:南希
解释:
n. the desire of power honour fame excellence.—n. Ambi′tionist (Carlyle) an ambitious man.—adj. Ambi′tious full of ambition (with of formerly for): strongly desirous of anything—esp. power: aspiring: indicating ambition: showy or pretentious.—adv. Ambi′tiously.—n. Ambi′tiousness.
整理:皮尔斯
娱乐性解释：
n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
黛博拉编辑
例句:
- His ambition was to restore the empire of Jengis Khan as he conceived it, a project in which he completely failed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- To become a Guppy is the object of his ambition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Her pride and blameless ambition was to create smiles in all around her, and to shed repose on the fragile existence of her brother. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- To be on good terms with St. Mark, seems to be the very summit of Venetian ambition. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- What aim, what purpose, what ambition in life have you now? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Courage and ambition, when not regulated by benevolence, are fit only to make a tyrant and public robber. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Behold ambition on his brow, And on his nose, a blot. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- And he had an abnormal share of youth's normal ambition to impress everybody. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It is a very noble ambition,' said Mr. Pickwick. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition; but how am I sunk! 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- I have no ambition to lose my life on the post-road between St. Petersburgh and Archangel. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- She lived to find ambition, as unreal a delusion as love. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- She saw this, and yet determined to win his love; the obstacle served the rather to excite her ambition. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The latter places one human life above any victory; while the former would sacrifice h undreds and thousands of lives to the ambition of one. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- No; I do not desire to return to the world, with all its tumult, ambitions, and fret. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- She had her girlish ambitions and hopes, and felt some disappointment at the humble way in which the new life must begin. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- We begin to read less and less of the schemes and ambitions of King This or That, and more of the Designs of France or the Ambitions of Prussia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Men's ambitions are apt to reflect the standards of their intimates. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- She had been plunged into new scenes, and had found in them a renewal of old hopes and ambitions. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- But if you think they are what I should really enjoy, you must think my ambitions are good enough for me. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- I have never recovered my self-respect since you showed me how poor and unimportant my ambitions were. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- His hopes and his ambitions were all crumbling about him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- In 1810 fresh friction was created by Alexander's objection to Napoleon's matrimonial ambitions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Kantos Kan was confident now that the man's ambitions were fully aroused and that nothing short of the title of Jeddak of Helium would satisfy him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- You despise my ambitions--you think them unworthy of me! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Her ambitions were not as crude as Mrs. Bart's. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Her ambitions had shrunk gradually in the desiccating air of failure. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Truly I have been very pure in my ambitions. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
录入:罗兰