This golf lesson got me thinking. It seems to me that there are certain fundamentals not only in golf, but in life, that we should have under control before we turn our attention to loftier ambitions.

这次高尔夫课引起我思考，对我来说，似乎不仅仅在打高尔夫球中，还有在生活中的，在我们将注意力转向更大的雄心前，都应有一些应该掌握的最基本的东西。

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Lower-level programmes, which harbour no ambitions to be international players and are not covered in our ranking, are seeing applications rise.

低水平计划，让人没有雄心成为世界大师，而且也不在我们排名之中，但是这些学校的申请人数上升了。

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But this is not something good ambition of course, appropriate ambitions, but not that ambition is confident it will impede our progress.

但是野心这并不是好东西(当然适当的野心就不叫野心了，而叫自信了)它会阻碍我们前进的步伐。

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Ultimately the baby dictator may make a pre-Gorbachev Soviet-style response to the West and others: We're not giving up our ambitions in Lebanon, so what are you going to do about it?

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Knowing that the cause of our innovators' faltering ambitions lies in our own nature does not make it any less of a concern.

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For instance, she talks about women being too self-effacing, or moderating our career ambitions years before we have children, not because we want to, but because we believe we must.

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