| 单词 | overweening ambition |
| 释义 | overweening ambition And for a man who was known, pre-scandal, for his overweening ambition... well, it has been quite a change. Times, Sunday Times The problem lies in the culture of the civil service, and in local government as well, where deeply uncommercial attitudes combine with overweening ambition to micro-manage everything. Times, Sunday Times A chancellor who has weakened the prime minister and in the process taken on the cloak of treachery and overweening ambition. Times, Sunday Times Subsequent events revealed his overweening ambition. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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