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单词 ascendancy
释义
ascendancy
noun[U]
formal(alsoascendency)
uk
/əˈsen.dən.si/us
/əˈsen.dən.si/
apositionofpower,strength, orsuccess:
权势显赫，处尊居显；优势，支配地位
They are indangeroflosingtheirpoliticalascendancy(=controllingpower).他们的政治权位岌岌可危。
Supporters of theproposalarecurrentlyin theascendancyoveritsopponents(= are morepowerfulthan them).提案的支持者目前占据上风（压倒了反对者）。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Power to control
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  • cradle
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  • influence
  • ingrain
  • initiative
  • lever
  • leverage
  • predominance
  • puissance
  • pull
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(Definition ofascendancyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofascendancy

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This discourse often included a protest against theascendancyof those exercising power or force.
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The importance of technological innovation in health care is due to the historicalascendancyof scientific medicine over other therapies.
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Despite the recentascendancyof free market economics, however, the case for state intervention has strengthened not weakened.
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Language is the vessel that steers hegemonic ideas intoascendancyand perpetuates a particular vision of the world.
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This served to reinforce the middle-class culturalascendancywhile demeaning the values of another culture.
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Suggestions cover a wide spectrum, from sober realism to unbridled hype, although happily the former appears to be gainingascendancy.
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Theascendancyof large jars is also indicated by a further drop in the overall bowl-to-jar ratio.
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There need have been no signs in the arm; the bacteraemia could have silently gainedascendancy.
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A variety of convenient features have led to itsascendancy.
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Thus, when structur-alist linguistics was in theascendancy, the content of language courses was specified in terms of sentence patterns.
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Yet hisascendancyowed more to the internal politics of the new ruling party than to his religious identity.
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A more diffused growth pattern stressing metropolitan planning and mainland development through a satellite city gainsascendancy.
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The reproduction of their families and the reproduction of their relations with the state reinforced each other as strategies for the perpetuation of theirascendancy.
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I suggest that the critics have gainedascendancymainly because the defence has been neither multi-dimensional nor multi-national.
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The hypothesized co-occupation of the valley means that there were no invaders and no "invaded" population but, rather, two distinct interacting groups competing forascendancy.
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