Ambitious

(adj.) having a strong desire for success or achievement .

(adj.) requiring full use of your abilities or resources; 'ambitious schedule'; 'performed the most challenging task without a mistake' .

编辑:弗吉尼亚

• Of all changes, he said, there is none so speedy or so sure as the conversion of the ambitious youth into the avaricious one. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He started at the word ambitious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• We're an ambitious set, aren't we? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I'm not ambitious for a splendid fortune, a fashionable position, or a great name for my girls. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The solitary woman felt an interest in the ambitious girl, and kindly conferred many favors of this sort both on Jo and the Professor. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Does the ambitious young philosopher predict that electricity will supersede steam? Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• As he watched her with another covert look, he saw a certain ambitious triumph in her face which no assumed coldness could conceal. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Animated by this reflection, he stumps faster, and looks a long way before him, as a man with an ambitious project in abeyance often will do. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Suppose we call it the contentious or ambitious--would the term be suitable? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The same may be said of the passionate element:--the desires of the ambitious soul, as well as of the covetous, have an inferior satisfaction. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He is a puppy, your cousin--a quiet, serious, sensible, judicious, ambitious puppy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Plague came, threatening to destroy at once the aim of the ambitious and the hopes of love. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I wanted a job, he said, and was ambitious to take charge of the dynamo-room. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• And not being ambitious they do not care about honour. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Poor aristocrats would marry rich members of the mercantile class; ambitious herdsmen, artisans, or sailors would become rich merchants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Other societies of Europe were equally ambitious of calling him a member. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• By a mixture of boasting, subtlety, and flattery he won over the young and ambitious Tsar, Alexander I--he was just thirty years old--to an alliance. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She would try to be more ambitious than her heart would allow. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Remember that the ambitious man who was looking at those Forget-me-nots under the water was very warm-hearted and rash. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She's so ambitious, but her heart is good and tender, and no matter how high she flies, she never will forget home. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• He had to dodge after all, to coast round the church, and finally to bend his tall form behind the Wynnes' ambitious monument. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I am simply, in my original state--stripped of that blood-bleached robe with which Christianity covers human deformity--a cold, hard, ambitious man. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I thought that commercially the thing was too ambitious, that Ferranti's ideas were too big, just then; that he ought to have started a little smaller until he was sure. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• His dearest vanities, ambitious hopes, had all been here. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Not an ambitious note, but still he sings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• You have not valued my courtesy--the courtesy of a lady in loving you--who used to think of far more ambitious things. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But he was ambitious, and when he was sixteen, a friend having brought him glowing tales of the great cotton-mills in the fast-growing city of Lowell, he decided to seek his fortune there. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• But his ambitious attempts to restore the ancient greatness of the empire probably overtaxed its resources. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Well, if you are not ambitious, you are-- He paused. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I am not ambitious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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