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

• 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。
• 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。
• After the election, our political party was once again in the ascendant.
  竞选之后，我们的政党又一次变得越来越强大了。
• State capitalism is hardly a new phenomenon, but it is very much in the ascendant at the moment.
  国家资本主义算不上什么新鲜玩意，但眼下呈现出强劲的上升势头。
• 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？
• Radical reformers are once more in the ascendant
  激进派改革者再度占据了统治地位。
• 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。
• 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？
• The ascendant right was libertarian in economics, traditional in values and confrontational in foreign policy.
  这股处于上升阶段的右翼势力信奉自由经济、传统价值观和对抗性的外交政策。
• Our star is in the ascendant, my friend.
  我的朋友，我们的星座上升。