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Перевод: ambitious

[прилагательное]
честолюбивый; самолюбивый; претенциозный; жаждущий; стремящийся

Тезаурус:

1. In 1732 Lord Petre moved to Thorndon Hall, also in Essex, where he created one of the most ambitious estates in the country.
2. Albert Speer, the ambitious, calculating, and rational power technician who had climbed to the top of the ladder, and who distanced himself most clearly from Hitler at Nuremberg and in his memoirs, admitted that he had seen in the Fhrer something approaching "a hero of an ancient saga" and, after the victory in France, as "one of the greatest figures in German history".
3. The scramble for aristocratic advancement in this mixed constituency of prosperous urban merchants, ambitious Jat farmers and the inevitable hordes of illiterate villagers reflects a striking fact of political life in the royal Indian state of Rajasthan.
4. Within a comprehensive school it is perfectly possible for children to be ambitious and competitive, for them to submit to a proper discipline, one imposed both by their teachers, and by the rigours of the subject itself that they are studying.
5. The idea for such an ambitious (but surprisingly nightmare-free) project was first mooted in 1989 when Professor Dai came to Norwich to attend a post-graduate degree course in tourism.
6. The Cup and League Double had eluded the most ambitious clubs ever since Aston Villa became the second club to achieve it in 1897, in a less competitive era.
7. And everywhere there are to be seminars on Mozartian themes and exhibitions, the most ambitious in Salzburg and Vienna.
8. This was an ambitious, complex production, and, thanks to a particularly officious fire officer, it teetered on the brink of disaster.
9. The old woman sat silently gathering the strands: the young girl who had known the pain of longing; the rich, beautiful and ambitious young woman who, despite two suitable marriages, continued to be pursued by longing; and the older woman, who found happiness with a poor drunken sot from her father's stables at Tjele.
10. It was an ambitious project for such young people to embark on and it worked beautifully.
11. Being a prosperous town, thanks to the surrounding mines, with an ambitious but isolated population (inclined to snobbishness - and, incidentally, to anti-Semitism), social and artistic life was active, and one effect of moving there was that Herbert had the chance to indulge his interest in amateur dramatics.
12. This hare has been aroused by an exchange of letters between Donald Riegle, chairman of the Senate banking committee, and the SEC's ambitious chairman, Richard Breeden.
13. Next, Peter Jenkins, the respected political commentator of The Sunday Times , writing on the possible impact of such men as Kenneth Baker and Kenneth Clarke brought into the Cabinet in the September 1985 reshuffle (in alliance with existing Cabinet members such as Douglas Hurd and Norman Fowler): "It is not easy to reassert Cabinet government in the face of determined prime ministerial power but the new Cabinet contains a group of capable and ambitious men of political middle age who are not eager to sacrifice the best years of their careers for the sake of someone else's "conviction politics"."