ambitious是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 有抱负的， 雄心勃勃的； 有野心的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The parson, a young fellow ambitious of becoming a great preacher, began his sermon and pointed to Marie.
-- I'm afraid all this is so commonplace that my confession will be taken for a school-boy exercise the work of some ambitious lad writing in the hope of his work 'seeing the light'; or perhaps my read-ers will say that 'I had perhaps something to say, but did not know how to express it.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a set made up of elderly, ugly, benevolent, and godly women, and clever, learned, and ambitious men.
-- His ambitious plans had retreated into the background again, and feeling that he had got out of that circle of activity in which everything was definite, he had given himself entirely to his passion, and that passion was binding him more and more closely to her.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah, what it is to be young, eager to see the world, greedily on the watch for any chance that brings you nearer the woman of your dreams, and behold two houses open their doors to you!To set foot in the Vicomtesse de Beauseant's house in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; to fall on your knees before a Comtesse de Restaud in the Chaussee d'Antin; to look at one glance across a vista of Paris drawing-rooms, conscious that, possessing sufficient good looks, you may hope to find aid and protection there in a feminine heart!To feel ambitious enough to spurn the tight-rope on which you must walk with the steady head of an acrobat for whom a fall is impossible, and to find in a charming woman the best of all balancing poles.
-- These incidents turned his thought from his ambitious dreams; he betook himself to his work, but his thought wandered back to Father Goriot's suspicious occupation; Mme.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had ambitious plans to cut thevitally important railroad between Atlanta and Tennessee and then swing southward into Atlanta to destroy thefactories and the war supplies concentrated there in that key city of the Confederacy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The earth was enough for me, and no ambitious desire to soar ever entered my mind.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My dear girls, I am ambitious for you, but not to have you make a dash in the world, marry rich men merely because they are rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is wanting.
-- I can do more, for even your ambitious soul cannot refuse the Earl of Devereux and De Vere, when he gives his ancient name and boundless wealth in return for the beloved hand of this fair lady, now my wife.
-- 'We're an ambitious set, aren't we?
-- I'm not ambitious for a splendid fortune, a fashionable position, or a great name for my girls.
-- 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'.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched.
-- When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.
-- And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Above all, I think' said the lady, fixing her eyes on her son's face, 'that if an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may, no matter how generous and good his nature, one day repent of the connection he formed in early life.
-- 'Then, if your lot had been differently cast,' rejoined Rose; 'if you had been even a little, but not so far, above me; if I could have been a help and comfort to you in any humble scene of peace and retirement, and not a blot and drawback in ambitious and distinguished crowds; I should have been spared this trial.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet she was interested in her charms, quick to understand the keener pleasures of life, ambitious to gain in material things.
-- "She asks only in return," said Carrie, scarcely hearing the small, scheduled reply of her lover, and putting herself even more in harmony with the plaintive melody now issuing from the orchestra, "that when you look upon her your eyes shall speak devotion; that when you address her your voice shall be gentle, loving, and kind; that you shall not despise her because she cannot understand all at once your vigorous thoughts and ambitious designs; for, when misfortune and evil have defeated your greatest purposes, her love remains to console you.
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