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

• The opposition party was in the ascendancy.
  反对党已渐占优势。
• 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。
• Whatever moral ascendancy the West held.
  不论西方原有所谓的道德优势。
• This led to the ascendancy of Bismarck.
  这一切最后导致了俾斯麦的崛起。
• He gained the ascendancy over me in the last election.
  他在上次竞选中胜过我。
• The wife gradually gained ascendancy over her weak will husband.
  那位太太逐步控制了她那意志薄弱的丈夫。
• 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。
• Aristotle's science had acquired ascendancy.
  亚里斯多德的科学早已盛行一时。
• 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。