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

• They established their ascendancy.
  他们确立了他们的支配地位。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• However, the point missing in the whole debate is perhaps the fact that in the revolving cycle of the rise and fall of the great powers China is on the ascendancy.
  然而，整个辩论中可能缺少了一个点，那就是在大国沉浮的循环中，中国处于上升状态。
• They are in danger of losing their political ascendancy.
  他们正面临失去政治优势的危险。
• 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。
• Aristotle's science had acquired ascendancy.
  亚里斯多德的科学早已盛行一时。
• 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。