ascendant

英 [əˈsendənt]

美 [əˈsendənt]

adj.  向上的；优越的；占支配地位的
n.  优势；运星；支配地位

复数：ascendants　

TEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.24220 / COCA.23793

习惯用语

n.

in the ascendant
• （权力、影响等）越来越大；日益受欢迎
  being or becoming more powerful or popular

柯林斯词典

• PHRASE 权势日隆;影响变大;日益受欢迎
  If someone or something isin the ascendant, they have or are getting more power, influence, or popularity than other people or things.
  1. Radical reformers are once more in the ascendant...
     激进派改革者再度占据了统治地位。
  2. 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？

双语例句

• I have no brother and sister, growing up lonely and ascendant in this common family.
  我没有兄弟姐妹，在这样一个普通的家庭里，优越且孤寂的成长。
• Hong Kong stands to lose the most from an ascendant Shanghai.
  面对上海的崛起，损失最大的要算香港。
• They take a lot more notice of him now that his star is in the ascendant.
  由于他处于优越地位，他们就更加注意他了。
• Though he is still a young man his political career is already in the ascendant.
  他虽然年纪轻轻，可是他在政坛上已青云直上了。
• Our star is in the ascendant, my friend.
  我的朋友，我们的星座上升。
• The economically ascendant class; D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe.
  经济中占支配地位的阶级；英国货币改为十进制被认为是欧洲战争中最重要的事件。
• At first Athens was in the ascendant, then Sparta.
  起初雅典占了优势，后来斯巴达居上。
• You're an extremely intense and powerful individual-the more so the closer Pluto is to your ascendant.
  你是一个极其强烈和有影响力的个体&冥王星离你的上升点越近就越是如此。
• But how will Washington shape regional rules when China has emerged as the ascendant power?
  然而，在中国崛起成为一支新兴强国之际，美国将如何影响区域规则？
• Indexers are in the ascendant.
  指数基金正方兴未艾。