ambition
ambition 英 [æmˈbɪʃn] 美 [æmˈbɪʃən]
n. 雄心；抱负
名词复数:ambitions
- Ambition is a strong desire to achieve. It's what Macbeth had too much of, and what slackers have too little of.
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- n. 雄心；抱负
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1. She has no personal ambition.
她没有个人野心。
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2. They had the ambition to dominate this small country.
他们有控制这个小国的野心。
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3. political/literary/sporting ambitions
政治抱负；文学夙愿；运动目标
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4. She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.
她一直未能实现当名作家的夙愿。
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5. His burning ambition was to study medicine.
他梦寐以求的是学医。
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6. motivated by personal ambition
为个人野心所驱使
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7. She was intelligent but suffered from a lack of ambition.
她很聪明，但却缺乏远大志向。
- ambition (n.) mid-14c., "eager or inordinate desire for honor or preferment," from Old French ambicion (13c.), or directly from Latin ambitionem (nominative ambitio) "a going around," especially to solicit votes, hence "a striving for favor, courting, flattery; a desire for honor, thirst for popularity," noun of action from past participle stem of ambire "to go around, go about," from amb- "around" (from PIE root *ambhi- "around") + ire "go" (from PIE root *ei- "to go").
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