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ascendency

/uh-sen-duhn-see/US // əˈsɛn dən si //UK // (əˈsɛndənsɪ) //

上升期,上升空间,上升阶段,升迁

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state of being in the ascendant; governing or controlling influence; domination.

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Examples

  • Yet despite this, its ascendency is no less compelling than that of the Bay Area.

  • But nowhere was this middle class ascendency more dramatic than in Europe, first in Italy and later in northern Europe.

  • In the long run, the biggest threat to the Sunbelt ascendency is internal.

  • Talent has been on the ascendency for so long—30 years—it takes winning for granted.

  • Her lofty dreams gained a daily increasing ascendency over her character.

  • She had involuntarily gained that entire ascendency over his whole being which made her the world to him.

  • The mob, headed by the Jacobins, had now the complete ascendency, and he was minister but in name.

  • Danton, Marat, and Robespierre were now in the ascendency, riding with resistless power upon the billows of mob violence.

  • Traffic by sea was the great source of their wealth; ascendency on the sea the great object of their ambition.