Ambition for personal gain egged the bourgeois careerist on.

I limited myself to two modest ambitions . to do physical exercises every morning and to read more of an evening.

我把自己的决心限制于两项小小的抱负:即每天早晨做体操,常在晚上多读一点书.

The important question is whether he is prepared to go to war to achieve his territorial ambitions.

重要的问题是他是否已准备好发动战争以实现他的领土野心.

He needs these people to fulfill his ambitions and reciprocates by bringing out the best in each of them.

他需要这些人去实现他的雄心壮志，作为回报，他也会让他们充分施展各自的才能。

Running a business heads the list of ambitions among the 1,000 people interviewed by Good Housekeeping magazine.

在《好管家》杂志采访过的1,000人中，创立自己的公司在理想抱负中列在首位。

The experience was a detestable ordeal, and it cured him of any ambitions to direct again.

那次经历是一次令人厌恶的煎熬，使得他放弃了任何再当导演的想法。

All ambitions are blasted.

万念俱灰.

He has very great ambitions.

他有很高的志向.

Do you have any unfulfilled ambitions?

你有什么未实现的抱负吗？

Mr Alexander is not the slightest bit coy about his ambitions.

亚历山大先生对自己的抱负毫不隐讳。

Political and personal ambitions are starting to prevail over economic interests.

政治抱负和个人野心开始压倒经济利益。

Many women feel ageism is obstructing their career ambitions.

许多女性感到年龄歧视问题正阻碍着她们职业抱负的实现。

She had always nurtured great ambitions for her son.

她总是鼓励儿子要树立远大抱负。

One may be poor but never ceases to be ambitious.

人穷志不穷.

The program is laudably ambitious.

这项计划雄心勃勃,值得称赞.

He is an ambitious young man full of enthusiasm and vitality.

他是个充满热情与活力的有远大抱负的青年.

A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.

充满野心勃勃、阿谀谄媚之人的庞大、腐败的官僚机构,既搞工作也搞麻烦.

He is an ambitious man.

他是个有野心的人.

She is ambitious to succeed.

她极想成功.

The government has announced an ambitious programme to modernise the railway network.

政府宣布了一项高要求的计划,使铁路网现代化.

Her parents were intensely ambitious for her and her younger sister.

她的父母对她和她妹妹有着很高的期望.