target(AIM)
B2[ U ]
a strong wish to be successful, powerful, rich, etc.: 抱负；志向；雄心；野心
She has a lot of ambition.她很有抱负。
Her ambition and dogged determination ensured that she rose to the top of her profession.
We are looking for someone with drive and ambition.我们在寻找有干劲、有抱负的人。
Driving ambition is what most great leaders have in common.强烈的进取心是大多数杰出领导者的共同特点。
Being here is the fulfilment of a lifelong ambition.来到这里就是完成了一生的雄心壮志。
She finally achieved her ambition to visit South America.她终于实现了去南美洲旅游的梦想。

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ambition | American Dictionary

ambition
noun[ C/U ]
us/æmˈbɪʃ·ən/
a strong desire for success, achievement, power, or wealth:
[ C ]His presidential ambitions were frustrated in the 1980s.
[ U ]No one ever accused him of lacking ambition.

ambition | Business English

ambition
noun
uk /æmˈbɪʃən/us
[ C ]
a strong wish to achieve a particular thing:
ambition to do sthAfter his heart attack, he abandoned his ambition to become CEO.
achieve/fulfil/realize your ambitionHe has already achieved his main ambition in life - to become rich.
ultimate/long-term ambitionHer ultimate ambition is to run her own business.
career ambitions.
political/personal/artistic ambitions
[ U ]
a strong wish to be successful:
She's got a lot of ambition.
I felt he lacked the ambition to succeed in showbusiness.

Examples of ambition

ambition
To this end, in this article, we identify the main research motivations and ambitions behind work in the field.
The personalities, ambitions, actions and ideas of the latter, in turn, contribute to shape the profiles of the parties and decisively affect their performance.
The thematic links, however, betray some of the ambitions of anthro-literary writing.
Plain good fortune had presented him with just the sort of connections he needed to match his sizeable ambitions.
The army was pulled between the ambitions and goals of rival leaders.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, government raised policy ambitions.
Bonds to partisan groups or personal career ambitions may interfere with the political mandate.
Given the ambitions held for it by its initiators, failure is little surprise.
The 1997 survey included questions on employment and resources, and on plans and ambitions across a range of areas of personal and family life.
Party-political, factional and personal ambitions were also very much in evidence in the list of issues that influenced the final shape the border would take.
Given the similarity of constructivist ambitions, there may be fruitful connections to exploit between these two programs.
In fact, modern history is full of examples that show how politicians, to divide people and realize their own selfish ambitions, have exploited this hostility.
At least some zemstva also nurtured ambitions to profit from international trade and to compete with the state for the privilege of taxing grain exports.
As used by junior scholars, acknowledgments mark an effort to enter the academic world, their expectations and ambitions.
Furthermore, the trend mainly consists of families without immediate ambitions of entering national politics.
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Collocations withambition

ambition

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artistic ambition
However, since the next paragraph again shows, this de-spatialisation nevertheless led to the birth of a new artisticambition.
career ambition
The report focuses on the comparison between careerambition and eventual destination, presenting this in the framework of career identities.
lack of ambition
Its lack of imagination and lackofambition are amazing.
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