| 单词 | ascend |
| 释义 | ascend (once / 164 pages) v To ascend is to move or travel upwards. You've heard about how we ascend to Heaven after we die? Well, that's because Heaven is above us, so we get to go up! Riding the escalators in the department store is one way to amuse yourself while your mom does the shopping. You can ascend all the way to 8 (Women's Lingerie) and then descend again, all the way back to the ground floor. Both of those words come from the Latin verb scandere, which means "to climb." It's the prefixes that make all the difference. The a- of ascend makes the word mean "climb up," while the de- of its antonym makes descend mean "climb down." WORD FAMILYascend: ascendable, ascendant, ascended, ascendent, ascender, ascending, ascends, ascension, ascensive+/ascendancy: ascendancies/ascendant: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendants/ascendency: ascendencies/ascendent: ascendence, ascendency, ascendently, ascendents/ascender: ascenders/ascending: ascendingly, ascendings/ascension: ascensional, ascensions/ascensive: ascensively USAGE EXAMPLESHe is ascending in every statistical career list and might be better than ever. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Edgmon ascends to House speaker 10 years into his political career. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) Each ascended to stardom, or something like it, in a unique way. Los Angeles Times(Dec 20, 2016) 1v travel up, "We ascended the mountain" The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper go up come down, descend, fall, go down move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way come up, rise, rise up, surface come to the surface upriseascend as a sound emergecome up to the surface of or rise resurfacereappear on the surface bubble up, intumescemove upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically swell, wellcome up, as of a liquid go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 2v appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils Syn climb up 3v go along towards (a river's) source The boat ascended the Delaware Hyper follow, travel along travel along a certain course 4v slope upwards The path ascended to the top of the hill Hyper incline, pitch, slope be at an angle 5v come up, of celestial bodies Jupiter ascends Syn|Ant|Hyper come up, rise, uprise go down, go under, set disappear beyond the horizon arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise move upward 6v move to a better position in life or to a better job She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great Syn|Hyper move up, rise change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 7v become king or queen She ascended to the throne after the King's death Hyper accede, enter take on duties or office 8v go back in order of genealogical succession Inheritance may not ascend linearly Hyper date back, date from, go back belong to an earlier time |
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