ambition  /æmb'ɪʃən/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  ambition
  U大志,雄心;野心

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  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.

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  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.

資料來源(4): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  ambition
       n 1: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own
            business" [syn: {aspiration}, {dream}]
       2: a strong drive for success [syn: {ambitiousness}]
       v : have as one's ambition

資料來源(5): THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]

  AMBITION, n.  An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while
  living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.