ascendancy

英 [əˈsendənsi]

美 [əˈsendənsi]

n.  支配地位; 优势; 影响

GRE

BNC.14964 / COCA.17325

牛津词典

noun

• 支配地位；优势；影响
  the position of having power or influence over sb/sth
  1. moral/political/intellectual ascendancy
     道德影响；政治支配地位；智力优势
  2. The opposition party was in the ascendancy (= gaining control) .
     反对党已渐占优势。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 优势;权势;支配地位
  If one group hasascendancyover another group, it has more power or influence than the other group.
  1. Although geographically linked, the two provinces have long fought for political ascendancy...
     尽管在地理上彼此依存，两省却长期为获取政治支配权你争我夺。
  2. The extremists are gaining ascendancy.
     极端分子正逐渐占据上风。

英英释义

noun

• the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
  1. her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her
  Synonym:dominanceascendanceascendenceascendencycontrol

双语例句

• Whatever moral ascendancy the West held.
  不论西方原有所谓的道德优势。
• Kennedy saw the liberal dawn that was heralded by the New Frontier and the Great Society give way to a long conservative ascendancy.
  肯尼迪目睹了由“新边疆”[2]和“伟大社会”[3]开启的自由主义清晨让位于保守主义漫长的统治。
• He gained the ascendancy over me in the last election.
  他在上次竞选中胜过我。
• With New Criticism we find the ascendancy of a more text-focused hermeneutic where the author's intention, even if it could be discerned, is irrelevant to the work at hand.
  在新批评那里占优势的是一种更以文本为中心的解释理论，作者的意图就算能够辨别，也与所涉及的文本无关。
• Those six killer apps were the key to Western ascendancy.
  这六个杀手级软件程序是西方取得优势的关键。
• This is another one of these major "isms" that emerged in the early19th century in response to the ascendancy of the French Revolution and expansion of French national power.
  这是另一个对这些主要的“主义”，在19世纪初出现了响应的法国大革命和法国国家权力的扩张优势之一。
• Herder and many other of his generation wanted to challenge the French ascendancy and to defend a distinctive German culture.
  赫德和他的许多其它发电要挑战法国优势和捍卫一个独特的德国文化。
• Gao Min, China's "Diving Queen", won consecutive Olympic gold medals and gold at three world championships at a time when China's sporting prowess and ascendancy was far from assured.
  高敏，中国的“跳水皇后”，韩元连续奥运金牌和黄金三个世界锦标赛在的时候，中国的体育实力和崛起远未得到保证。
• That implies there could be a lag of about 70 years between economic dominance and currency ascendancy.
  这意味着，本币成为主要储备货币与本国占据世界经济主导地位之间，可能存在着大约70年的滞后。
• At present the wet methods seem to be in the ascendancy.
  目前看来湿法似占优势。