| 词组 | ambitious |
| 释义 | ambitious /æmˈbɪʃəs/ adjective 1. determined to be successful, rich, powerful etcadverbsvery/highly ambitious Thompson was highly ambitious and later became Director General of the BBC. | He’s a very ambitious young man.extremely/fiercely/intensely ambitious Alfred was intensely ambitious and obsessed with the idea of becoming rich.ruthlessly ambitious (=so ambitious that you do not care about the effects on other people) Stalin was ruthlessly ambitious in his pursuit of power.politically ambitious Many public officials are not politically ambitious.socially ambitious Her socially ambitious father encouraged her to accept the Duke’s proposal.prepositionsambitious for sb (=wanting another person to be very successful) His mother was ambitious for him and gave him constant encouragement with his studies.phrasesambitious for power (=wanting to get power) Kim was ambitious for power and wanted to become president one day.2. trying to do something difficultadverbsvery/highly/hugely/extremely ambitious The programme of reform is highly ambitious.extremely/hugely/enormously/extraordinarily ambitious The project to build the stadium was enormously ambitious and very expensive.over-ambitious/overly ambitious If you set yourself over-ambitious targets, you will end up feeling a failure.nounsan ambitious plan/project/scheme/programme The company has ambitious plans for expansion.an ambitious target/goal It is an ambitious target, but Leblanc believes it is attainable.an ambitious attempt The crash ends an ambitious attempt to break the world record for flying round the world.an ambitious undertaking formal (=an ambitious thing that you try to do) This ambitious undertaking may take more than two decades to complete.an ambitious agenda Republicans will have to scale back their ambitious agenda to get it through the Senate.phrasessth is ambitious in scope (=it tries to do a lot of things) The book is ambitious in its scope. |
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