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单词 ambitious
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Definition of ambitious in English:

ambitious

adjectiveamˈbɪʃəsæmˈbɪʃəs
  • 1Having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed.

    有强烈成功欲望的,有雄心的;有野心的

    a ruthlessly ambitious workaholic
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For young boys and their ambitious parents, all of this is the stuff of which dreams are made.
    • He now hopes to marry Bradamante, but her ambitious parents vigorously oppose the match.
    • New York, that great city of immigrants, is home to ambitious sons and daughters from all over the world.
    • I found them to be a very receptive group, very ambitious and very willing to learn.
    • Is he ambitious and keen to succeed by seeing you enjoy commercial success?
    • However, Lochhead argued, it is crucial that the new institution tries not to be too ambitious.
    • O'Connor is an ambitious and driven young man and he knew that this was his chance to make capital from his success.
    • But the band does sound ambitious and hungry to progress to bigger and better things.
    • Clever, ambitious and moderate as he is, I do not for a moment think he expects his party to win the election.
    • It used to be the case that ambitious people went into politics in the hope that they would one day become famous.
    • Where else would you have a government in which bright, ambitious ministers don't want the top job?
    • Former colleagues of Usi describe him as intelligent, ambitious and volatile.
    • They are honest, enthusiastic and ambitious for the club and they made it clear they wanted me to stay.
    • As Cesarani demonstrates, Eichmann was an ambitious man determined to do his job well.
    • That is why younger, leaner, more ambitious colleges are now the real powerhouses of learning.
    • We are ambitious and we want the best for the population of Breaffy and Ballyheane.
    • Its predominance in west and central Africa is coming to an end as South Africa becomes more ambitious.
    • By contrast, the syndicates of private investors have become more ambitious.
    • Some of the more ambitious regional economic groupings are striving to become a common market.
    • They were determined and ambitious in their playing, but their performances were a mixed bag.
    Synonyms
    aspiring, determined, forceful, pushy, enterprising, pioneering, progressive, eager, motivated, driven, enthusiastic, energetic, zealous, committed, go-ahead, go-getting, purposeful, assertive, aggressive, hungry, power-hungry
    informal on the make
    eager, determined, enthusiastic, desirous, anxious, hungry, impatient, striving, yearning, longing, wishing, itching, dying, hoping, avid, hankering
    intent on
    informal raring
    1. 1.1 (of a plan or piece of work) intended to satisfy high aspirations and therefore difficult to achieve.
      (计划,工作)要求高的,雄心勃勃的
      an ambitious enterprise

      一项雄心勃勃的事业。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • People in Cottingley had arranged fundraising ventures for the ambitious project.
      • Turnover has doubled in the past two years as the company embarked on an ambitious expansion programme.
      • I hope my vision is clear enough for this job and ambitious enough for this country.
      • Edinburgh's political and business leadership have set themselves an ambitious goal.
      • Youngsters in the town were on hand on Saturday as work began on another ambitious project in the town.
      • It's an ambitious feat, but he's hoping it will help him get over his recent divorce.
      • The Society has a full and ambitious programme laid out for the rest of the year.
      • Town hall chiefs have agreed to submit the ambitious proposal to the Transport Department.
      • It is an ambitious work, with inevitable moments of awkwardness and pretension.
      • Lovell acknowledges that the rescue plan is ambitious and riddled with potential problems.
      • Instead the company has come up with an ambitious scheme to boost the number of people working from home.
      • This is an ambitious programme which will succeed if all of Erris supports the event.
      • Work on the ambitious project started this week, and will be completed later in the month.
      • The project proposes the most ambitious plans for the parish church in over 100 years.
      • The most important step in reaching this ambitious goal is to stop pollution at its source.
      • Parents are set to be given their say on ambitious plans which could see a York school sold to make way for a new one.
      • This ambitious scheme was designed to make the motorist's life a lot freer.
      • To make the ambitious plans work, the house next door also had to be bought.
      • And work is now due to start on the ambitious project to meet the timescale for claiming the award.
      • It was a bold and ambitious plan that took no account of the terrain or local conditions.
      Synonyms
      difficult, exacting, demanding, formidable, challenging, hard, arduous, onerous, tough, stiff, strenuous
      bold, grandiose, extravagant, monumental
      informal killing, hellish
      British informal knackering
      archaic toilsome

Derivatives

  • ambitiously

  • adverbamˈbɪʃəsli
    • Most ambitiously, in 1961 an 11-metre-tall Jacob Epstein sculpture was displayed on the roof of Waverley Market.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He dealt with something ambitiously named ‘life coaching’, which is a service that some businesses provide for top staff.
      • ‘I see us competing for the national championship,’ he declared ambitiously.
      • Yesterday he ambitiously pledged to aim for ‘full employment’.
      • This manifesto rings with a youthful sincerity, but his stories and poems ambitiously attempt to embody the ideal.
  • ambitiousness

  • nounamˈbɪʃəsnəsæmˈbɪʃəsnəs
    • Inherent in this are his qualities of individuality, ambitiousness, justice, and straightforwardness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She tried to figure out when she lost her drive, her ambitiousness, when she lost her will power.
      • The fault may lie in the ambitiousness of the authors' vision.
      • But it has a depth and ambitiousness that are worthy of praise.
      • Perhaps the main fault of the book is also its strongest virtue, its ambitiousness.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French ambitieux or Latin ambitiosus, from ambitio (see ambition).

Rhymes

adventitious, Aloysius, auspicious, avaricious, capricious, conspicuous, delicious, expeditious, factitious, fictitious, flagitious, judicious, lubricious, malicious, Mauritius, meretricious, nutritious, officious, pernicious, propitious, repetitious, seditious, siliceous, superstitious, suppositious, surreptitious, suspicious, vicious

Definition of ambitious in US English:

ambitious

adjectiveamˈbiSHəsæmˈbɪʃəs
  • 1Having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed.

    有强烈成功欲望的,有雄心的;有野心的

    his mother was hard-working and ambitious for her four children

    他母亲含辛茹苦,渴望四个子女成大器。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Former colleagues of Usi describe him as intelligent, ambitious and volatile.
    • He now hopes to marry Bradamante, but her ambitious parents vigorously oppose the match.
    • New York, that great city of immigrants, is home to ambitious sons and daughters from all over the world.
    • Where else would you have a government in which bright, ambitious ministers don't want the top job?
    • We are ambitious and we want the best for the population of Breaffy and Ballyheane.
    • For young boys and their ambitious parents, all of this is the stuff of which dreams are made.
    • By contrast, the syndicates of private investors have become more ambitious.
    • O'Connor is an ambitious and driven young man and he knew that this was his chance to make capital from his success.
    • However, Lochhead argued, it is crucial that the new institution tries not to be too ambitious.
    • They were determined and ambitious in their playing, but their performances were a mixed bag.
    • They are honest, enthusiastic and ambitious for the club and they made it clear they wanted me to stay.
    • Clever, ambitious and moderate as he is, I do not for a moment think he expects his party to win the election.
    • It used to be the case that ambitious people went into politics in the hope that they would one day become famous.
    • I found them to be a very receptive group, very ambitious and very willing to learn.
    • That is why younger, leaner, more ambitious colleges are now the real powerhouses of learning.
    • Its predominance in west and central Africa is coming to an end as South Africa becomes more ambitious.
    • Is he ambitious and keen to succeed by seeing you enjoy commercial success?
    • As Cesarani demonstrates, Eichmann was an ambitious man determined to do his job well.
    • Some of the more ambitious regional economic groupings are striving to become a common market.
    • But the band does sound ambitious and hungry to progress to bigger and better things.
    Synonyms
    aspiring, determined, forceful, pushy, enterprising, pioneering, progressive, eager, motivated, driven, enthusiastic, energetic, zealous, committed, go-ahead, go-getting, purposeful, assertive, aggressive, hungry, power-hungry
    eager, determined, enthusiastic, desirous, anxious, hungry, impatient, striving, yearning, longing, wishing, itching, dying, hoping, avid, hankering
    1. 1.1 (of a plan or piece of work) intended to satisfy high aspirations and therefore difficult to achieve.
      (计划,工作)要求高的,雄心勃勃的
      an ambitious enterprise

      一项雄心勃勃的事业。

      the scope of the book is very ambitious

      这本书涉及范围很广。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • It was a bold and ambitious plan that took no account of the terrain or local conditions.
      • This is an ambitious programme which will succeed if all of Erris supports the event.
      • Parents are set to be given their say on ambitious plans which could see a York school sold to make way for a new one.
      • And work is now due to start on the ambitious project to meet the timescale for claiming the award.
      • Town hall chiefs have agreed to submit the ambitious proposal to the Transport Department.
      • Edinburgh's political and business leadership have set themselves an ambitious goal.
      • People in Cottingley had arranged fundraising ventures for the ambitious project.
      • The most important step in reaching this ambitious goal is to stop pollution at its source.
      • Youngsters in the town were on hand on Saturday as work began on another ambitious project in the town.
      • It is an ambitious work, with inevitable moments of awkwardness and pretension.
      • The Society has a full and ambitious programme laid out for the rest of the year.
      • Turnover has doubled in the past two years as the company embarked on an ambitious expansion programme.
      • To make the ambitious plans work, the house next door also had to be bought.
      • Lovell acknowledges that the rescue plan is ambitious and riddled with potential problems.
      • This ambitious scheme was designed to make the motorist's life a lot freer.
      • The project proposes the most ambitious plans for the parish church in over 100 years.
      • It's an ambitious feat, but he's hoping it will help him get over his recent divorce.
      • Work on the ambitious project started this week, and will be completed later in the month.
      • I hope my vision is clear enough for this job and ambitious enough for this country.
      • Instead the company has come up with an ambitious scheme to boost the number of people working from home.
      Synonyms
      difficult, exacting, demanding, formidable, challenging, hard, arduous, onerous, tough, stiff, strenuous

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French ambitieux or Latin ambitiosus, from ambitio (see ambition).

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