"Friendship,position,wealth everything that makes life desirable to an ambitious man were about to be swept away by my answer."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

As presumptuous as that desire is, to come before Homer or to come before Virgil, it's by no means the final sense, I think, of Milton's ambitious drive to be first. Milton invokes the same heavenly muse here who inspired Moses, that shepherd.

尽管想要先于荷马或维吉尔的雄心,很冒失，这却绝不是弥尔顿想要做第一，的壮志的终点，他在这里所写的,缪斯正是那个启示了牧羊人摩西的缪斯。

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"Part of the legacy of the World Cup should be HIV and AIDS as per the national strategic plan, ambitious goal to halve infections by 50 percent."

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

Oz was brought up to be ambitious and aggressive, and, above all else, to win.

NEWYORKER: The Operator

Tax simplification (unlikely to be ambitious) comes second, followed by tax cuts only when the government can afford them.

ECONOMIST: Taxes in Germany

But I believe that when we help others by giving our time and talent we become better for it and are encouraged to be ambitious ourselves.

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