| 单词 | to ascend |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ascend 5. transitive. To go up by degrees to a relatively higher position upon; to walk up, climb, mount; hence, to go up to the top of, reach the summit of. to ascend a river: to go along it towards its source. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] styc825 staira1400 ascendc1400 mountc1500 conscenda1552 breast1718 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > go up (a hill, etc.) climba1000 ascendc1400 breast1718 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)] > set a ship's course > ascend a river ascend1776 c1400 Epiph. in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Visions of Tundale (1843) 103 Wherefor of sort the hyll thei ben ascendyd. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. vii. 2 Quhil ascend ar thai The hill. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 12 Sept. (1965) I. 434 We begun to ascend Mount Cenis. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall xiii Their galleys ascended the river. 1851 W. H. Dixon W. Penn v. 167 Ascended the Delaware. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §2. 17 Next day I ascended the valley of Hasli. < as lemmas |
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