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Picture something you want that sits a long way off — years away, and reachable only through work you have not done yet. An ambition is that far point, plus the fact that you are willing to walk toward it.
可以想成心裡放著一個離你很遠的目標：遠到要花好幾年、要吃點苦才走得到，而你確實打算朝它走。ambition 這個字同…更多收起
可以想成心裡放著一個離你很遠的目標：遠到要花好幾年、要吃點苦才走得到，而你確實打算朝它走。ambition 這個字同時裝著兩樣東西——那個遠方的點，以及你願意為它出力這件事；少了任何一樣，都只是「想想而已」。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ambitionnoun/æmˈbɪʃ.ən/
- 1
Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
- My daughter, Johanna, wants to be a firefighter very much. She has a lot of ambition.
- The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […]
- 2
An object of an ardent desire.
- My ambition is to own a helicopter.
- 3
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
- 4
A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
- 5
obsoleteThe act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
- I on th' other ſide / Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds, […]
ambitionverb/æmˈbɪʃ.ən/
- 1
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
- Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。