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Breakdown of the Kanji #6

彼女は野望に燃えていた。
Kanojo wa yabō ni moete ita.
She was consumed with ambition.

彼女 (kanojo: she)     he + woman
野望 (yabō: ambition; aspiration; designs; treachery)
     wild + to aspire to
燃える (moeru: to burn)

The ambition not only consumed her; it consumed her in flames! Her internal fire to succeed ended up destroying her. Nice morality tale.

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