ascendant

英 [ə'sendənt] 美 [ə'sendənt]

• adj. 上升的；有优势的
• n. 运星；祖宗
• =ascendent.

英英释义

Noun:

1. position or state of being dominant or in control;

   "that idea was in the ascendant"
   

2. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

Adjective:

1. tending or directed upward;

   "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"
   

2. most powerful or important or influential;

   "the economically ascendant class"
   "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. After the election, our political party was once again in the ascendant.
   竞选之后，我们的政党又一次变得越来越强大了。
2. We still have the ascendant position in world politics.
   我们在国际政治中仍占优势地位。
3. Though he is still a young man his political career is already in the ascendant.
   他虽然年纪轻轻，可是他在政坛上已青云直上了。

用作名词 (n.)

1. Her star seems very much in the ascendant.
   她看来吉星高照。

经典引文

• A double scale or ladder, ascendent and descendent.

  出自： Bacon

• Distended like a ball..The body mounts ascendant.

  出自： Southey

词汇搭配

• in the ascendant 青云直上
• One's star is in the ascendant. 福星高照

近反义词

【近义词】

• upwards 往上
• dominant 主要的
• controlling 控制的
• governing 治理的
• ruling 裁决
• influential 有权势的
• main 主要的
• principal 主要的
• leading 领导的
• chief 主要的
• rising 上升
• ascending 上升的
• prevailing 盛行很广的
• mounting 逐渐增加的
• overriding 最主要的
• climbing 爬山
• upward 向上的
• soaring 猛增的
• spiraling 动词spiral的现在进...
• ascendent 运星
• dominating 主要的
• ancestor 祖宗
• root 根
• antecedent 前情
• ascensive 上升的

【反义词】

• descendant 后裔