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希望
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An everyday, small, easily possible wish:“I’d like an aisle seat.” “I’d like to fly nonstop.” 希望 might be better translated as ‘request':‘Customers wishing to request a child-seat for their infant please see the waiter.’
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意思
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A really heavy wish, which usually involves getting someone to do something for you. “I wish to join this organization.” “I want to ask for your hand in marriage.” “When I die it is my wish to donate my organs.”
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願い
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Same as 意思、 but more common and less formal. A fairly serious request:お願いがあります（ I have a favor to ask you). Can you buy me a car? Can you loan me money? Can you bail me out of jail? Example:その願いを叶える (I’ll grant your wish.)
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野心
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An ambition – to move up the ranks, to expand one’s empire.
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望み
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An almost-impossible or impossible wish:a faint and idle dream. “Someday I’ll marry Tom Cruise.” “Someday I’ll be President of Moldovia.”
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志す
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Similar to 野心, but 志す is only used with things relating to personal growth, while 野心 emphasizes more greed and a lust for power. 志す means, to have an ambition (to become a doctor, become a rock star). Also, you have to be doing something to realize the ambition – you can’t just be idly thinking about it (i.e. 望み) (I’m studying medicine because I want to become a doctor)
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