ambition
英 [æm'bɪʃ(ə)n]
美[æm'bɪʃən]
- n. 野心，雄心；抱负，志向
- vt. 追求；有…野心
词态变化
复数: ambitions;
助记提示
1、amb- "around" + ire "go" => ambire "go around".
2、ambitus "a going round," past participle of ambire. => ambit-.
3、ambit- + -ion.
4、字面含义："a going around," especially to solicit votes.
5、也就是为了选票、权利、财富等而四处奔走。
6. 俺必胜.
2、ambitus "a going round," past participle of ambire. => ambit-.
3、ambit- + -ion.
4、字面含义："a going around," especially to solicit votes.
5、也就是为了选票、权利、财富等而四处奔走。
6. 俺必胜.
中文词源
ambition 目标
前缀ambi-, 两边，周围。词根it , 走。向周围走，向外走，目标。
英英释意
- 1. a cherished desire;
- "his ambition is to own his own business"
- 2. a strong drive for success
英文词源
- ambition
- ambition: [14] Like ambient, ambition comes ultimately from the Latin compound verb ambīre ‘go round’ (formed from the prefix ambi-, as in AMBIDEXTROUS, and the verb īre ‘go’, which also gave English exit, initial, and itinerant). But while ambient, a 16th-century acquisition, remains fairly faithful to the literal meaning of the verb, ambition depends on a more metaphorical use.
It seems that the verb’s nominal derivative, ambitiō, developed connotations of ‘going around soliciting votes’ – ‘canvassing’, in fact – and hence, figuratively, of ‘seeking favour or honour’. When the word was first borrowed into English, via Old French ambition, it had distinctly negative associations of ‘greed for success’ (Reginald Pecock writes of ‘Vices [such] as pride, ambition, vainglory’, The repressor of overmuch blaming of the clergy 1449), but by the 18th century it was a more respectable emotion.
=> exit, initial, itinerant - ambition (n.)
- mid-14c., from Middle French ambition 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" (see ambient).
Rarely used in the literal sense in English, where it carries the secondary Latin sense of "eager or inordinate desire of honor or preferment." In early use always pejorative, of inordinate or overreaching desire; ambition was grouped with pride and vainglory.
考试真题
- They resonated(共鸣) with optimism and ambition in much the same way as the most famous dream speech of all, delivered by Martin Luther King Jr.
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- They can only be solved by people with optimism and ambition
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- Behind the differences in sex, skin tones and mother tongues, there are common attitudes, expectations and ambitions which risk creating a set of clones among the business leaders of the future.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
- As he grows you also age, and your ambitions become more unachievable.
2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
- No one will ever know what mix of talent, ambition, energy and luck made Dickens such a distinguished writer.
2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
- Robert Willumstad left Citigroup in 2005 with ambitions to be a CEO.
出自-2011年考研阅读原文
- Broadcasting his ambition was “very much my decision,” McGee says.
出自-2011年考研阅读原文
- But the professional companies prospered in their permanent theaters, and university men with literature ambitions were quick to turn to these theaters as offering a means of livelihood.
出自-2018年考研翻译原文
- Broadcasting his ambition was "very much my decision", McGee says.
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- The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me
2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
实用场景例句
- motivated by personal ambition
- 为个人野心所驱使
牛津词典
- She was intelligent but suffered from a lack of ambition.
- 她很聪明，但却缺乏远大志向。
牛津词典
- She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.
- 她一直未能实现当名作家的夙愿。
牛津词典
- His burning ambition was to study medicine.
- 他梦寐以求的是学医。
牛津词典
- It had been her lifelong ambition .
- 这是她终身追求的目标。
牛津词典
- political/literary/sporting ambitions
- 政治抱负；文学夙愿；运动目标
牛津词典
- Even when I was young I never had any ambition.
- 即使是年轻时，我也从没有什么雄心壮志。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...a mixture of ambition and ruthlessness.
- 既野心勃勃又冷酷无情
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He harboured ambitions of becoming a Tory MP.
- 他梦想成为托利党下院议员。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- His ambition is to sail round the world...
- 他的梦想是环球航行。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The Government's main aim is to beat inflation.
- 政府的主要目标是减低通货膨胀.
期刊摘选
- Ambition often overleaps itself.
- 野心往往自招失败.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- They had the ambition to dominate this small country.
- 他们有控制这个小国的野心.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Have grandiose aims but puny abilities, great ambition but little talent.
- 眼高手低, 志大才疏.
《简明英汉词典》
- His ambition was not satisfied.
- 他的野心没有得逞.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- You will achieve your ambition if you work hard.
- 如果你努力,你的抱负是可以实现的.
《简明英汉词典》
- She has no personal ambition.
- 她没有个人野心.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- She attained her ambition of becoming a pilot.
- 她实现了成为一名飞行员的志向.
《简明英汉词典》
- Ambition winged his spirit.
- 雄心壮志使他意气风发.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- He burns with an ambition.
- 他野心勃勃.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The great ambition is spurring him on.
- 远大的志向鞭策着他.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The big house on the hill is my ambition.
- 山上那所大房子是我所企望得到的.
《简明英汉词典》
- He has no ambition or aim in his life. He only drifts along.
- 他生活中没有雄心或目标, 只能随波逐流,混日子.
《简明英汉词典》
- He is in bondage to his ambition.
- 他被他的野心所支配.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- His ambition is unbounded.
- 他的野心毫无止境.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- She is quite shameless about her ambition.
- 她对她的野心全然不知羞耻.
《简明英汉词典》
- She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.
- 她一直未能实现当名作家的夙愿。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- After having been subjugated to ambition, your maternal instincts are at last starting to assert themselves.
- 你那被雄心壮志压制已久的母性本能终于开始展现出来。
柯林斯例句