be inflated (/obsessed)with amibition designs; be overweeningly ambitious;burn with ambitious designs; consumed by ambition;fly high (/at high game/a high pitch); full of rabidambition; harbour (/entertain) ambitious dreams(/wild designs); hungry (/lust)for power; indulgeoneself in ambitions; lust for power ❍ 上台不久的特别顾问有着~的气势,这是他非常喜欢的;……(罗广斌、杨益言《红岩》 178) He very much admired the energyand ambition of the new Special Adviser.
野心勃勃
be overweeningly ambitious(/obsessed with ambition)
野心勃勃yě xīn bó bó
勃勃:旺盛的样子。形容对名利、地位、领土、权利等方面的欲望特别大。driven by wild ambitions, be overweening ambitious, hungry for power, fly high, be obsessed with ambition