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词汇 overambitious
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Definition of overambitious in English:

overambitious

adjectiveəʊvəramˈbɪʃəsˌoʊvəræmˈbɪʃəs
  • Excessively ambitious.

    雄心(或野心)过大的

    he blamed his parents for being overambitious on his behalf
    an overambitious expansion programme
    Example sentencesExamples
    • All Lang's projects were on the grandest scale, too many of them overambitious.
    • A year later he was facing electoral defeat, having been overambitious in almost every field.
    • Latvia's attempts to get the ball forward quickly frequently ended in failure because of overambitious passes.
    • The downside of this was that he was often indiscreet and overambitious.
    • Substantial weight loss is extremely difficult to achieve, and setting overambitious targets can reduce motivation.
    • Then there is a baffled son, emotionally involved with an overambitious undertaker.
    • That flood of rhetorical questions just goes to demonstrate how overambitious the plot is.
    • Given you believe it's overambitious, does that lend you to think it's going to fail like the others that have failed in the past couple of years?
    • I find some overseas prescriptions sound, some obvious, and some overambitious and pretentious.
    • It could be that your goals are overambitious - perhaps losing a stone by the end of the month is aiming a bit high.
    • Much of this is due to overambitious expansion plans, according to chief executive Terry Playle.
    • Unfortunately for France, his scheme was overambitious and his economic analysis riddled with flaws.
    • However, experience suggests that exacerbation of symptoms may result from overambitious or overhasty attempts at exercise.
    • I think I was overambitious in the number of books I brought on vacation.
    • The Slovakian was overambitious on a number of occasions and might well have been accused of hesitation when an opportunity to settle the issue came his way in the second half.
    • You remember that overambitious roofs have collapsed, and that the superstition about walking under ladders is just common sense.
    • The event provides a forum for people to vent their frustrations, as long as they do this within a certain language framework, and are not overambitious or militant about their demands.
    • Both of these now seem somewhat overambitious.
    • The strategy is comprehensive but it looks overambitious for the resources allocated to it.
    • It wasn't that he tried overambitious passes, because he often didn't manage to make the pass before he got tackled.
    Synonyms
    affected, ostentatious, chichi, showy, flashy, tinselly, conspicuous, flaunty, tasteless, kitschy

Derivatives

  • overambition

  • nounˌəʊv(ə)ramˈbɪʃ(ə)nˌoʊvəræmˈbɪʃ(ə)n
    mass noun
    • Excessive ambition.

      雄心(或野心)过大的

      the long-nurtured pet projects have an element of tragic overambition to them
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Other long-nurtured pet projects have an element of tragic overambition to them, a yearning to do something that's either more personal or may shatter the restrictions of their star persona.
      • The chairman, in whom the bank lost confidence, said he was proud to be guilty of overambition.
      • Its downfall came from overambition on limited resources.
  • overambitiously

  • adverb

Definition of overambitious in US English:

overambitious

adjectiveˌoʊvəræmˈbɪʃəsˌōvəramˈbiSHəs
  • Excessively ambitious.

    雄心(或野心)过大的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The event provides a forum for people to vent their frustrations, as long as they do this within a certain language framework, and are not overambitious or militant about their demands.
    • Latvia's attempts to get the ball forward quickly frequently ended in failure because of overambitious passes.
    • Both of these now seem somewhat overambitious.
    • The strategy is comprehensive but it looks overambitious for the resources allocated to it.
    • That flood of rhetorical questions just goes to demonstrate how overambitious the plot is.
    • Unfortunately for France, his scheme was overambitious and his economic analysis riddled with flaws.
    • Given you believe it's overambitious, does that lend you to think it's going to fail like the others that have failed in the past couple of years?
    • You remember that overambitious roofs have collapsed, and that the superstition about walking under ladders is just common sense.
    • A year later he was facing electoral defeat, having been overambitious in almost every field.
    • It wasn't that he tried overambitious passes, because he often didn't manage to make the pass before he got tackled.
    • It could be that your goals are overambitious - perhaps losing a stone by the end of the month is aiming a bit high.
    • The Slovakian was overambitious on a number of occasions and might well have been accused of hesitation when an opportunity to settle the issue came his way in the second half.
    • I find some overseas prescriptions sound, some obvious, and some overambitious and pretentious.
    • Much of this is due to overambitious expansion plans, according to chief executive Terry Playle.
    • Then there is a baffled son, emotionally involved with an overambitious undertaker.
    • All Lang's projects were on the grandest scale, too many of them overambitious.
    • Substantial weight loss is extremely difficult to achieve, and setting overambitious targets can reduce motivation.
    • I think I was overambitious in the number of books I brought on vacation.
    • The downside of this was that he was often indiscreet and overambitious.
    • However, experience suggests that exacerbation of symptoms may result from overambitious or overhasty attempts at exercise.
    Synonyms
    affected, ostentatious, chichi, showy, flashy, tinselly, conspicuous, flaunty, tasteless, kitschy
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