英语词源
- ascendant (adj.)
- late 14c., ascendent, astrological use is earliest, from Middle French ascendant (noun and adjective) and directly from Latin ascendentem (nominative ascendans), present participle of ascendere "to mount, ascend, go up" (see ascend). Sense "moving upward, rising" is recorded from 1590s. In the ascendant "ruling, dominant" (not, as is often thought, "rising") is from 1670s.
权威例句
- 1. Why are Geography, Drama, Art and English in the ascendant?
- 为什么地理、戏剧、艺术和英语逐渐受宠？
- 2. Radical reformers are once more in the ascendant.
- 激进派改革者再度占据了统治地位。
- 3. Her star seems very much in the ascendant.
- 她看来吉星高照.
- 4. His star was in the ascendant.
- 他那时正在走运.
- 5. At first Athens was in the ascendant, then Sparta.
- 起初雅典占了优势, 后来斯巴达居上.
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