ambition
[æm'biʃən]
n. 野,

1. In his youth he had the ambition of being a pianist.
   青想钢琴雄。
2. Ambition is a characteristic of all successful businessmen.
   雄勃勃意特点。
3. The naked facts; naked ambition.
   白白；野

ambition
[ noun ]

1. a cherished desire

<noun.feeling>
his ambition is to own his own business

2. a strong drive for success

<noun.attribute>

[ verb ]

1. have as one's ambition

<verb.emotion>

Ambition \Am*bi"tion\, n. [F. ambition, L. ambitio a going
around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to
solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor), fr. ambire
to go around. See {Ambient}, {Issue}.]
1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or
any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.]

[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. --Milton.

2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for
preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment
of something.

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:
By that sin fell the angels. --Shak.

The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six
thousand more acres. --Burke.


Ambition \Am*bi"tion\, v. t. [Cf. F. ambitionner.]
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.]

Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece,
bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
--Trumbull.