英语词汇ambition的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	ambition
词源	ambition. Politicians are still among the most ambitious men, but the Romans thought them so much more so than oth- ers that they confined their word ambito (from ambi, “around,” and eo, “go”), meaning “ardent striving for pomp and power,” to politicians alone. In fact it took centuries before ambition, the English derivative of ambito, took on a more positive meaning and was applied to any person striving for wealth, power, skill, or recognition.
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