AMBITION

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ambition substantiv

1. ambiţie, râvnă; sete de mărire, de putere;

eaten up with ambition ros de ambiţie;

unscrupulous ambition arivism.

2. ambiţie, dorinţă neînfrânată; ţintă;

it was his ambition to become a writer ambiţia lui era să devină scriitor.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Ambitious men caught glimpses of nobler ambitions than their own, and even worldlings confessed that his beliefs were beautiful and true, although 'they wouldn't pay'.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Ambition, as well as love, had probably been mortified.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

He repeated, "No. What made you think of ambition? Who is ambitious? I know I am: but how did you find it out?"

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Mrs. Grant, with a temper to love and be loved, must have gone with some regret from the scenes and people she had been used to; but the same happiness of disposition must in any place, and any society, secure her a great deal to enjoy, and she had again a home to offer Mary; and Mary had had enough of her own friends, enough of vanity, ambition, love, and disappointment in the course of the last half-year, to be in need of the true kindness of her sister's heart, and the rational tranquillity of her ways.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Did you lack ambition?

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

“To think that you should be the first to kindle the sparks of ambition in my umble breast, and that you've not forgot it! Oh! Would you excuse me asking for a cup more coffee?”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

My purpose, in short, is to have all things in an absolutely perfect state of readiness for Diana and Mary before next Thursday; and my ambition is to give them a beau-ideal of a welcome when they come.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

To dance without much observation or any extraordinary fatigue, to have strength and partners for about half the evening, to dance a little with Edmund, and not a great deal with Mr. Crawford, to see William enjoy himself, and be able to keep away from her aunt Norris, was the height of her ambition, and seemed to comprehend her greatest possibility of happiness.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her. . . . Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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