| 单词 | ambitious |
| 释义 | ambitious (once / 332 pages) 1adj 2adj Ambitious means wanting to succeed. If you want to climb Mount Everest, start your own business, and write a great philosophical treatise all before you are 30, then wow, you are really ambitious. Having an ambition is a good thing, like wanting to get good grades, or to become a doctor. But if we say someone is ambitious, often we mean they have too much ambition. An ambitious politician might want power so badly that he’ll abandon his ideals in order to win a race. If you hatch a business plan and someone tells you it’s too ambitious, that means you’re probably not being reasonable about how much you can get done. WORD FAMILYambitious: ambitiously, ambitiousness, overambitious, unambitious+/ambition: ambitioned, ambitionless, ambitions, ambitious/unambitious: unambitiously USAGE EXAMPLESThose numbers fall well short of the goals in the city’s ambitious climate action plan, which was approved a year ago. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) Reviewing the premiere in Philadelphia last fall, Zachary Woolfe of The New York Times called it an “ambitious, accomplished, dramatically direct opera.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The current iteration of the Second Avenue subway is both wildly more expensive and less ambitious than anticipated. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 adj having a strong desire for success or achievement 2Syn|Ant pushful, pushy marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative aspirant, aspiring, wishfuldesiring or striving for recognition or advancement compulsive, determined, drivenstrongly motivated to succeed manque, would-beunfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition overambitiousexcessively ambitious enterprisingmarked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects ambitionless, unambitious having little desire for success or achievement shiftlesslacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy nonenterprising, unenterprisinglacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome adj requiring full use of your abilities or resources ambitious schedule Syn challenging difficult, hard not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure |
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