Reynolds has never concealed his ambition to be the top dog.

雷纳尔德从不掩饰他要成为领军人物的雄心。

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In my youth my ambition had been to be an inventor.

在我年轻时我的抱负曾是当一名发明家。

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If ambition is to be well regarded, the rewards of ambition—wealth, distinction, control over one's destiny—must be deemed worthy of the sacrifices made on ambition's behalf.

如果野心被正确看待，那么它所带来的回报——财富、名望、对命运的掌控——就必须被认为是值得为之付出牺牲的。

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But the hymn at the same time is something like the process, the process by which Milton is attempting to purge and cleanse his poetic voice and make it a voice that will actually be equal to the extraordinary ambition that he has for it.

但颂歌同时又像一个过程，在这个过程中弥尔顿尝试净化,他诗歌的语言，把它变的,像他当初想的那样非同寻常,人人都渴望得到。

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Whatever happens, Mr King is likely to be thwarted in his ambition to make monetary policy boring.

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And since there were one-family houses selling in Union for a Depression low of a few thousand dollars, he would be able to realize an ambition he had nurtured growing up penniless in a Newark tenement flat: to become an American homeowner.

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So forgive Mozilla for its naked ambition to be users' go-to browser of choice.

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