Ambitious

例句/造句/用法:

• Of all changes, he said, there is none so speedy or so sure as the conversion of the ambitious youth into the avaricious one. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• He started at the word ambitious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• We're an ambitious set, aren't we? 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• I'm not ambitious for a splendid fortune, a fashionable position, or a great name for my girls. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• The solitary woman felt an interest in the ambitious girl, and kindly conferred many favors of this sort both on Jo and the Professor. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• Does the ambitious young philosopher predict that electricity will supersede steam? Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• As he watched her with another covert look, he saw a certain ambitious triumph in her face which no assumed coldness could conceal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• Animated by this reflection, he stumps faster, and looks a long way before him, as a man with an ambitious project in abeyance often will do. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• Suppose we call it the contentious or ambitious--would the term be suitable? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• The same may be said of the passionate element:--the desires of the ambitious soul, as well as of the covetous, have an inferior satisfaction. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• He is a puppy, your cousin--a quiet, serious, sensible, judicious, ambitious puppy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• Plague came, threatening to destroy at once the aim of the ambitious and the hopes of love. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
• I wanted a job, he said, and was ambitious to take charge of the dynamo-room. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• And not being ambitious they do not care about honour. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• Poor aristocrats would marry rich members of the mercantile class; ambitious herdsmen, artisans, or sailors would become rich merchants. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Other societies of Europe were equally ambitious of calling him a member. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• By a mixture of boasting, subtlety, and flattery he won over the young and ambitious Tsar, Alexander I--he was just thirty years old--to an alliance. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• She would try to be more ambitious than her heart would allow. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
• Remember that the ambitious man who was looking at those Forget-me-nots under the water was very warm-hearted and rash. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• She's so ambitious, but her heart is good and tender, and no matter how high she flies, she never will forget home. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• He had to dodge after all, to coast round the church, and finally to bend his tall form behind the Wynnes' ambitious monument. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• I am simply, in my original state--stripped of that blood-bleached robe with which Christianity covers human deformity--a cold, hard, ambitious man. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• I thought that commercially the thing was too ambitious, that Ferranti's ideas were too big, just then; that he ought to have started a little smaller until he was sure. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• His dearest vanities, ambitious hopes, had all been here. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• Not an ambitious note, but still he sings. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• You have not valued my courtesy--the courtesy of a lady in loving you--who used to think of far more ambitious things. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• But he was ambitious, and when he was sixteen, a friend having brought him glowing tales of the great cotton-mills in the fast-growing city of Lowell, he decided to seek his fortune there. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• But his ambitious attempts to restore the ancient greatness of the empire probably overtaxed its resources. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Well, if you are not ambitious, you are-- He paused. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• I am not ambitious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.

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