ambition

am·bi·tion

A0243500 (ăm-bĭsh′ən)n.1. a. An eager or strong desire to achieve something, such as fame or power.b. The object or goal desired: Her ambition is the presidency.2. Desire for exertion or activity; energy: had no ambition to go dancing.

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[Middle English ambicioun, excessive desire for honor, power, or wealth, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambitiō, ambitiōn-, from ambitus, past participle of ambīre, to go around (for votes); see ambient.]

ambition

(æmˈbɪʃən) n1. strong desire for success, achievement, or distinction2. something so desired; goal; aim[C14: from Old French, from Latin ambitiō a going round (of candidates), a striving to please, from ambīre to go round; see ambit]

am•bi•tion

(æmˈbɪʃ ən)

n. 1. an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as wealth or fame, and the willingness to strive for it. 2. the object or state desired or sought after: A theatrical career is her ambition. 3. a desire for work or activity: I awoke feeling tired and lacking in ambition. v.t. 4. to seek after earnestly; aspire to. [1300–50; Middle English (< Middle French) < Latin ambitiō orig., canvassing for votes =ambi-, variant s. of ambīre (see ambient) + -tiō -tion]

Ambition

 

1. Ambition … coursed like blood through her —Vita Sackville-West
2. [One woman’s] ambition expanded like yeast —Rita Mae Brown
3. Ambition is as hollow as the soul of an echo —Anon
4. Ambition is a sort of work —Kahlil Gibran
5. Ambition is like a treadmill … you no sooner get to the end of it than you begin again —Josh Billings
6. Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite —Josh Billings
7. Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals —Sir John Denham
8. Ambition is like the sea wave, which the more you drink the more you thirst —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
9. Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back —Ben Jonson
10. Ambitions thin with age —James Goldman
11. Ambitious as the devil —Francis Beaumont
12. As ambitious as Lady MacBeth —James Huneker
13. Aspirations prancing like an elephant in a skirmish —Frank O’Hara
14. Good intentions … like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep —G. Simmons
15. How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unrestrained ambition! —N. P. Willis
    The word ‘ unrestrained’ has been substituted for ‘unrein’d.’
16. A man without ambition is like a woman without beauty —Frank Harris
17. Overambitious … like a musician trying to play every instrument in the band —Anon
18. (I think of) that ambition of his like some sort of little engine tick, tick, ticking away, and never stopping —Gore Vidal about Abraham Lincoln
19. To reach the height of ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes —William Talbot Burke
20. Zeal without knowledge is like an expedition to a man in the dark —John Newton

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	ambition - a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"aspiration, dreamdesire - the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied stateAmerican Dream - the widespread aspiration of Americans to live better than their parents didemulation - ambition to equal or excelnationalism - the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination
	2.	ambition - a strong drive for success ambitiousnessdrive - the trait of being highly motivated; "his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers"aspiration - a will to succeedpower hunger, status seeking - a drive to acquire power
Verb	1.	ambition - have as one's ambition desire, want - feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room"

ambition

noun1. goal, end, hope, design, dream, target, aim, wish, purpose, desire, intention, objective, intent, aspiration, Holy Grail (informal) His ambition is to sail round the world.2. enterprise, longing, drive, fire, spirit, desire, passion, enthusiasm, warmth, striving, initiative, aspiration, yearning, devotion, zeal, verve, zest, fervour, eagerness, gusto, hankering, get-up-and-go (informal), ardour, keenness, avidity, fervency a mixture of ambition and ruthlessnessQuotations
"Ambition is the growth of every clime" [William Blake King Edward the Third]
"Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar" [Edmund Burke Letters on a Regicide Peace]
"Ambition, in a private man a vice,"
"Is in a prince the virtue" [Philip Massinger The Bashful Lover]
"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition" [James Madison The Federalist Papers]Proverbs
"Every eel hopes to become a whale"

ambition

noun1. A strong desire to achieve something:ambitiousness, aspiration, emulation.2. What one intends to do or achieve:aim, design, end, goal, intent, intention, mark, meaning, object, objective, point, purpose, target, view, why.Idioms: end in view, why and wherefore.

Translations

雄心抱负

ambition

(ӕmˈbiʃən) noun1. the desire for success, fame, power etc. He is full of ambition and energy. 雄心 雄心2. the desire eventually to become or do something special. His ambition is to be Prime Minister. 抱負 抱负amˈbitious adjectiveHe is very ambitious; That plan is too ambitious. 有雄心的 有雄心的amˈbitiously adverb 有雄心地 有雄心地amˈbitiousness noun 充滿雄心或抱負 雄心

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