Good people are altogether wrong. (They always are, in my opinion. We never agree on any single point.) What would the world do without ambitious people, I should like to know? Why, it would be as flabby as a Norfolk dumpling. Ambitious people are the leaven which raises it into wholesome bread. Without ambitious people the world would never get up. They are busybodies who are about early in the morning, hammering, shouting, and rattling the fire-irons, and rendering it generally impossible for the rest of the house to remain in bed.英文原著 · 《Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow》
Murray had naturally, it seems, certainly not by dint of wrestling with Greek prose, the mastery of language. His light verse is wonderfully handled, quaint, fluent, right. Modest as he was, he was ambitious, as we said, but not ambitious of any gain; merely eager, in his own way, to excel. His ideal is plainly stated in the following verses:-英文原著 · 《R. F. Murray》
Chapter 2.IV. The Ambitious Citizen, and the Ambitious Soldier.英文原著 · 《Rienzi》
Thus, then, Sirs, it is. You think me ambitious: ambition, alas! is composed of more rugged materials. If I were ambitious, I should not for so many years have been a prey to all the hell of conscientious scruples. But I weary your patience: I will be brief. Know, then, that I have long been troubled in mind on my union with the Princess Hippolita. Sirs, if ye were acquainted with that excellent woman! if ye knew that I adore her like a mistress, and cherish her as a friend - but man was not born for perfect happiness!英文原著 · 《The Castle of Otranto》
Your loving wives lead nowhere; a woman of the world leads to everything; she is the diamond with which a man cuts every window when he has not the golden key which unlocks every door. Leave humdrum virtues to the humdrum, ambitious vices to the ambitious.英文原著 · 《The Commission in Lunacy》
As far as I can judge of myself, I worked to the utmost during the voyage from the mere pleasure of investigation, and from my strong desire to add a few facts to the great mass of facts in Natural Science. But I was also ambitious to take a fair place among scientific men,--whether more ambitious or less so than most of my fellow-workers, I can form no opinion.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
Look, you have a really busy life, and you're really ambitious, which I admire,美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Stalwart, ambitious fellow branching out from finance into what we might call national news.美剧 · 《Billions》
This is the first stage in Heidecker's ambitious plan for an eventual manned mission to Mars.美剧 · 《Billions》
'Cause someone had an incentive to get up off his ass, to out-invent, to out-earn, yes, and to subjugate others less capable, less intelligent, less ambitious, less lucky-- to make those capitalistic dreams come true.美剧 · 《Billions》
And I said, "Well, you know, that might be a bit ambitious for our budget." And I said, "Well, you know, that might be a bit ambitious for our budget."演讲 · 《How photography connects us ~ David Griffin》