| 单词 | ascendancy |
| 释义 | ascendancy From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishascendancyas‧cen‧dan‧cy, ascendency /əˈsendənsi/ noun [uncountable] formalPOWERa position of power, influence, or control → ascendantmoral ascendancyascendancy ofthe ascendancy of nationalist forcesascendancy overButler established ascendancy over his critics.He slowly gained ascendancy in the group.in the ascendancya teaching method that is currently in the ascendancyExamples from the Corpusascendancy• The U.S. gained ascendancy after World War II.• My view is that he combined two qualities that were, at the time of his ascendancy, regarded as mutually exclusive.• Certainly there was abundant evidence as to how the centre-left had lost its entrenched intellectual and ideological ascendancy.• The retreat of Marxism has been paralleled by the ascendancy of the New Right.• Lilov denied that this demonstrated the ascendancy of party conservatives.• The former now seem to be in the ascendancy.• Wolves were very much in the ascendancy after that.• Another political reality is the ascendancy of the Republican Party.gained ascendancy• Thus the dinosaurs themselves probably gained ascendancy in precisely this fashion. |
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