ambition

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/    美 /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/|[ɛəmˈbɪʃ.n̩]|/æmˈbɪʃ.ən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. countable,uncountable
    — My daughter, Johanna, wants to be a firefighter very much. She has a lot of ambition.
  2. An object of an ardent desire. countable
    — My ambition is to own a helicopter.
  3. A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things. countable,uncountable
  4. A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal. uncountable
  5. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — I on th' other ſide / Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds, […]
动词 v.
  1. To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
    — Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.

词形变化

ambitions plural ambitions present,singular,third-person ambitioning participle,present ambitioned participle,past ambitioned past

词汇关系

衍生词
ambitionate ambitionize ambitionless nonambition overambition unambition underambition
相关词
ambience ambient ambit ambitious ambitionist

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
Proto-Italic *amβi
Latin ambi-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti
Proto-Italic *ejō
Proto-Italic *eō
Latin eō
Latin ambiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin ambitiōder.
Old French ambitionbor.
Middle English ambicioun
English ambition
From Middle English ambicioun, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambitiō (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambiō (“to go around, solicit votes”). See ambient, issue. By surface analysis, ambit + -ion.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
Proto-Italic *amβi
Latin ambi-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti
Proto-Italic *ejō
Proto-Italic *eō
Latin eō
Latin ambiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin ambitiōder.
Old French ambitionbor.
Middle English ambicioun
English ambition
From Middle English ambicioun, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambitiō (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambiō (“to go around, solicit votes”). See ambient, issue. By surface analysis, ambit + -ion.
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