ambition是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 雄心, 抱负，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having supposed that there was sense where there is no sense, and a laud-able ambition where there is not a laudable ambition, I am well out of my mistake, and no harm is done.
-- Impelled by a laudable ambition to study the art and mystery of his father's honest calling, Young Jerry, keeping as close to house fronts, walls, and doorways, as his eyes were close to one another, held his honoured parent in view.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it was so strong that now this passion was even doing battle with his love.
-- His connection with Madame Karenina, by creating so much sensation and attracting general attention, had given him a fresh distinction which soothed his gnawing worm of ambition for a while, but a week before that worm had been roused up again with fresh force.
-- Having once made up his mind that he was happy in his love, that he sacrificed his ambition to it-- having anyway taken up this position, Vronsky was incapable of feeling either envious of Serpuhovskoy or hurt with him for not coming first to him when he came to the regiment.
-- He, who had in her opinion such a marked aptitude for a political career, in which he would have been certain to play a leading part--he had sacrificed his ambition for her sake, and never betrayed the slightest regret.
-- Chapter 9 The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and frescoes on the walls, with its floors of mosaic, with its heavy yellow stuff curtains on the windows, with its vases on pedestals, and its open fireplaces, its carved doors and gloomy reception rooms, hung with pictures--this palazzo did much, by its very appearance after they had moved into it, to confirm in Vronsky the agreeable illusion that he was not so much a Russian country gentleman, a retired army officer, as an enlightened amateur and patron of the arts, himself a modest artist who had renounced the world, his connections, and his ambition for the sake of the woman he loved.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did awe his Gang by bandaging stone-bruises, dissecting squirrels, and explaining the astounding and secret matters to be discovered at the back of the physiology, but he was not completely free from an ambition to command such glory among them as was enjoyed by the son of the Episcopalian minister, who could smoke an entire cigar without becoming sick.
-- Even when, as advocate for Madeline, he pleaded that Leora was a trivial young woman who probably chewed gum in private and certainly was careless about her nails in public, her commonness was dear to the commonness that was in himself, valid as ambition or reverence, an earthy base to her gaiety as it was to his nervous scientific curiosity.
-- He longed for the girl Leora; she stirred him, and with gay frank passion she answered him; but to another, sexless Leora he talked more honestly than to Gottlieb or his own worried self, while with her boyish nod or an occasional word she encouraged him to confidence in his evolving ambition and disdains.
-- She belonged to a bridge club, and she went solemnly by herself to the movies, but her ambition was to know France and it engrossed her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'To think thatyou should be the first to kindle the sparks of ambition in myumble breast, and that you've not forgot it!Oh!- Would you excuseme asking for a cup more coffee?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a night when sorrow may come to the brightest without causing any great sense of incongruity: when, with impressible persons, love becomes solicitousness, hope sinks to misgiving, and faith to hope: when the exercise of memory does not stir feelings of regret at opportunities for ambition that have been passed by, and anticipation does not prompt to enterprise.
-- Out of these say twenty will endeavour to drown the bitterness of despised love in drink; twenty more will mope away their lives without a wish or attempt to make a mark in the world, because they have no ambition apart from their attachment to you; twenty more the susceptible person myself possibly among them will be always draggling after you, getting where they may just see you, doing desperate things.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It did not escape his eyes that not a crumb was wasted in the house, nor that the wine they drank was made from the second pressing; a 莽卢卢15 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 multitude of small things, which it is useless to speak of in detail here, made him burn to distinguish himself, and his ambition to succeed increased tenfold.
-- Suddenly the young man's ambition discerned in those recollections of hers, which had been like nursery fairy tales to her nephews and nieces, the elements of a social success at least as important as the success which he had achieved at the Ecole de Droit.
-- The transition was too sudden, and the contrast was so violent that it could not but act as a powerful stimulant; his ambition developed and grew beyond all social bounds.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have no ambition to lose my life on the post-road between St. Petersburgh and Archangel.
-- His father was a narrow-minded trader and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son.
-- The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the an-nihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded.
-- We passed rapidly along; the sun was hot, but we were sheltered from its rays by a kind of canopy while we enjoyed the beauty of the scene, some-times on one side of the lake, where we saw Mont Saleve, the pleasant banks of Montalegre, and at a distance, sur-mounting all, the beautiful Mont Blanc and the assemblage of snowy mountains that in vain endeavour to emulate her; sometimes coasting the opposite banks, we saw the mighty Jura opposing its dark side to the ambition that would quit its native country, and an almost insurmountable barrier to the invader who should wish to enslave it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But having that ambition and bringing itto realization were two different matters, he discovered as time went by.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so unmeasureable is the ambition of princes, that he seemed to think of nothing less than reducing the whole empire of Blefuscu into a province, and governing it, by a viceroy; of destroying the Big- endian exiles, and com-pelling that people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by which he would remain the sole monarch of the whole world.
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