ambition

UK:  [æm'bɪʃ(ə)n]

US:  [æm'bɪʃ(ə)n]

复数：ambitions  

v.

1.热望,想望得到

n.

1.抱负,雄心,大志;志向,志愿,愿望;雄心壮志,理想和抱负

2.抱负,志气,雄心

3.野心,奢望

4.〔俚语〕锐气,精力

1 . "Ambition, " he said to me cheerfully last night as he cleaned his teeth, "is nothing but a displacement activity for unhappy people. "
他昨晚刷牙时高兴地对我说：“雄心壮志，不过是不幸福的人们转移注意力的替代品。”

2 . Greenpeace said the plans was "dramatically lacking in ambition" , a wasted effort and a failure from the outset.
绿色和平组织（Greenpeace）表示，这项计划是“明显缺乏雄心壮志”，从一开始就是一场徒劳、一次失败。

3 . Criminalizing and persecuting dissent is out of step with China's ambition to be a respected member of the international community.
把持不同政见当作是罪名，再迫害其不同政见者，同中国要在国际社会上受到尊重这梦想，格格不入。

4 . to see their sweet looks directed towards me with affection, was the utmost limit of my ambition.
能得到他们充满关爱的神情就是我最大的愿望。

5 . Her problem is rather that she confuses her own Promethean egotism with an ambition for her daughters.
她的问题是，她把自己普罗米修斯式的自我中心与她对女儿的期望混为一谈。