ambition

US [æmˈbɪʃ(ə)n]
UK [æm'bɪʃ(ə)n]
  • n.野心；雄心；抱负；志向
  • v.热望
  • Web雄心壮志；志气
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AMBITION
n.
1.
[c]
追求的目标；夙愿something that you want to do or achieve very much
It had been her lifelong ambition .
这是她终身追求的目标。
political/literary/sporting ambitions
政治抱负；文学夙愿；运动目标
She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.
她一直未能实现当名作家的夙愿。
His burning ambition was to study medicine.
他梦寐以求的是学医。
2.
[u]
野心；雄心；志向；抱负the desire or determination to be successful, rich, powerful, etc.
motivated by personal ambition
为个人野心所驱使
She was intelligent but suffered from a lack of ambition.
她很聪明，但却缺乏远大志向。

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1.
"When I got to Washington, my ambition was to be as influential as the ambassador from Norway, " a Polish diplomat at the time told me.
“当我到华盛顿时，我的志向是拥有像挪威大使那样的影响力。”当时的一名波兰外交官告诉我。
" dāng wǒ dào huá shèng dùn shí , wǒ de zhì xiàng shì yōng yǒu xiàng nuó wēi dà shǐ nà yàng de yǐng xiǎng lì 。 " dāng shí de yī míng bō lán wài jiāo guān gào su wǒ 。
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2.
This issue is often a great opportunity for you to pursue a particular personal ambition.
这件事情往往是实现你个人抱负的一个好机会。
zhè jiàn shì qíng wǎng wǎng shì shí xiàn nǐ gè rén bào fù de yī gè hǎo jī huì 。
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3.
When it comes to planting trees in the desert, unfortunately, mad ambition is often its own reward.
然而很遗憾，在沙漠中植树通常只有一个成果：疯狂膨胀的野心。
rán ér hěn yí hàn , zài shā mò zhōng zhí shù tōng cháng zhǐ yǒu yī gè chéng guǒ : fēng kuáng péng zhàng de yě xīn 。
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The Gates speech effectively marks the end of the American ambition to turn Nato into the global, military arm of a unified western world.
盖茨的讲话实际上标志着，美国放弃了把北约转化为团结一致的西方世界的全球军事机构的雄伟构想。
gài cí de jiǎng huà shí jì shang biāo zhì zhe , měi guó fàng qì le bǎ běi yuē zhuǎn huà wéi tuán jié yī zhì de xī fāng shì jiè de quán qiú jūn shì jī gòu de xióng wěi gòu xiǎng 。
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For Mr Vajpayee, who once said that his life's ambition was to see India take its place as a great nation, it must be very dispiriting.
对瓦杰帕伊（Vajpayee）来说，有人曾说他的志向就是看着印度成为大国，这一定让他非常沮丧。
duì wǎ jié pà yī ( Vajpayee ) lái shuō , yǒu rén céng shuō tā de zhì xiàng jiù shì kàn zhe yìn dù chéng wéi dà guó , zhè yí dìng ràng tā fēi cháng jǔ sàng 。
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Although I said yesterday was a great failure, but I do not lose yesterday although I, but I am full of ambition.
虽然我昨天遭到了莫大失败，但我不颓唐丧志；虽然我的昨天平平常常，但我满怀志向。
suī rán wǒ zuó tiān zāo dào le mò dà shī bài , dàn wǒ bù tuí táng sàng zhì ; suī rán wǒ de zuó tiān píng píng cháng cháng , dàn wǒ mǎn huái zhì xiàng 。
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The next key ambition of a sub-editor is to make an article readable, which is not the same thing as making it comprehensible.
助理编辑的第二个关键目标是使文章琅琅上口。琅琅上口同通俗易懂不是一个概念。
zhù lǐ biān jí de dì èr gè guān jiàn mù biāo shì shǐ wén zhāng láng láng shàng kǒu 。 láng láng shàng kǒu tóng tōng sú yì dǒng bú shì yī gè gài niàn 。
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"Our ambition is nothing less than being able to recognize any object on the planet, " Neven said.
“我们的计划就是让它能辨认出这个星球所有的物品，”乃文说。
" wǒ men de jì huà jiù shì ràng tā néng biàn rèn chū zhè ge xīng qiú suǒ yǒu de wù pǐn , " nǎi wén shuō 。
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I have a goddess of a wife who sweats ambition and empathy and a daughter who reminds me too much of what I used to be.
我有一个女神般的妻子，她为理想和打动人而拼命努力，我还有个女儿，她让我回忆起我的很多过去。
wǒ yǒu yī gè nǚ shén bān de qī zi , tā wèi lǐ xiǎng hé dǎ dòng rén ér pīn mìng nǔ lì , wǒ hái yǒu gè nǚ ér , tā ràng wǒ huí yì qǐ wǒ de hěn duō guò qù 。
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Five months ago it looked as if that would have to be the limit of its ambition.
五个月前，形势似乎表明工党雄心伟业将止步于此。
wǔ gè yuè qián , xíng shì sì hū biǎo míng gōng dǎng xióng xīn wěi yè jiāng zhǐ bù yú cǐ 。
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