ambition, aspiration, pretension
这三个词共同的意思是指对实现抱负的强烈愿望。ambition可用于褒义,也可用于贬义; aspiration的单数形式主要用于褒义,指使人提高或使人高尚的抱负,其复数形式有时可指缺乏合理根据的或狂妄的野心; 而pretension则因其“狂妄”的词源意义而侧重表示只有愿望而没有条件、权力或才能。
- 词义辨析
- 双语例句
1、
Vision and ambition are his great strengths.
目光远大、雄心勃勃是他的两大优点。
——柯林斯例句
2、
She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.
她一直未能实现当名作家的夙愿。
——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
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She attained her ambition of becoming a pilot.
她实现了成为一名飞行员的志向.
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After having been subjugated to ambition, your maternal instincts are at last starting to assert themselves.
你那被雄心壮志压制已久的母性本能终于开始展现出来。
——柯林斯例句
5、
Her ambition to become an artist was thwarted by failing eyesight.
她想成为艺术家的梦想由于视力衰减而破灭了。
——柯林斯例句
6、
He is a man of extraordinary vitality, driving ambition and political nous.
他是一个精力非凡、志向远大、政治上很有见识的人。
——柯林斯例句
7、
They both have learnt that ambition and successful fatherhood can be mutually exclusive.
他们两个人都认识到了追求理想和做个好父亲不能两者兼顾。
——柯林斯例句
8、
Reynolds has never concealed his ambition to be the top dog.
雷诺兹从没掩饰过他要成为老大的雄心。
——柯林斯例句
9、
She was a very well educated girl with a lively mind, a girl with ambition.
她是个受过良好教育、思维敏捷、抱负远大的女孩子。
——柯林斯例句
10、
His ambition is to play the part of Dracula.
他渴望扮演德拉库拉。
——柯林斯例句
11、
The young boy was burning with a fierce ambition.
这个年轻人怀有极其远大的抱负。
——柯林斯例句
12、
Macbeth is the story of a Scottish soldier who becomes king but is undone by his own ambition.
《麦克白》讲述的是一个苏格兰士兵当上了国王，却毁于自己的野心。
——柯林斯例句
13、
Politicians dress up their ruthless ambition as a pursuit of the public good.
政客们将他们的狼子野心美化成是谋求公共利益。
——柯林斯例句
14、
It was his ambition to accumulate a million dollars before he turned thirty.
他立志要在而立之年以前攒够100万美元。
——柯林斯例句
15、
Have grandiose aims but puny abilities, great ambition but little talent.
眼高手低, 志大才疏.
——《简明英汉词典》
16、
You will achieve your ambition if you work hard.
如果你努力,你的抱负是可以实现的.
——《简明英汉词典》
17、
The big house on the hill is my ambition.
山上那所大房子是我所企望得到的.
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18、
He has no ambition or aim in his life. He only drifts along.
他生活中没有雄心或目标, 只能随波逐流,混日子.
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19、
She is quite shameless about her ambition.
她对她的野心全然不知羞耻.
——《简明英汉词典》
20、
Ambition often overleaps itself.
野心往往自招失败.
——《现代英汉综合大词典》
21、
They had the ambition to dominate this small country.
他们有控制这个小国的野心.
——《现代汉英综合大词典》
22、
His ambition was not satisfied.
他的野心没有得逞.
——《现代汉英综合大词典》
23、
She has no personal ambition.
她没有个人野心.
——《现代汉英综合大词典》
24、
Ambition winged his spirit.
雄心壮志使他意气风发.
——《现代英汉综合大词典》
25、
He burns with an ambition.
他野心勃勃.
——《现代汉英综合大词典》
26、
The great ambition is spurring him on.
远大的志向鞭策着他.
——《现代汉英综合大词典》
27、
He is in bondage to his ambition.
他被他的野心所支配.
——《现代英汉综合大词典》
28、
His ambition is unbounded.
他的野心毫无止境.
——《现代汉英综合大词典》
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