Yet given their country's vaulting ambitions, for the Chinese, at least, such neuroses are trivial, he insisted.

不过考虑到他们的国家都在雄心勃勃做大事，这些神经质的小事是微不足道的，至少对于中国人来说是这样，他坚称。

The grip Rollo's descendants exerted on Europe and the Middle East was more the result of a militarised diaspora, vaulting ambition and crafty opportunism than of conscious empire-building.

罗洛的后代对欧洲和中东施加的控制，更大程度上是源于军事化的移居、过于雄心勃勃的野心和狡猾的投机主义，而不是有意识地建立帝国。