Ascend

[ə'send] or [ə'sɛnd]

解释:

(verb.) travel up, 'We ascended the mountain'; 'go up a ladder'; 'The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope'.

(verb.) move to a better position in life or to a better job; 'She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great .

(verb.) slope upwards; 'The path ascended to the top of the hill'.

(verb.) go along towards (a river's) source; 'The boat ascended the Delaware'.

(verb.) become king or queen; 'She ascended to the throne after the King's death'.

(verb.) go back in order of genealogical succession; 'Inheritance may not ascend linearly'.

(verb.) appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; 'the vine climbed up the side of the house'.

阿黛尔编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(v. i.) To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

(v. i.) To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.

(v. t.) To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.

埃塞雷德编辑

同义词及近义词：

v. n. [1]. Rise, arise, aspire, mount, soar, tower, CLIMB, go up.[2]. Go backward (in the order of time).

v. a. CLIMB, scale, get up, go up.

科迪莉亚整理

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Rise, mount, soar, surmount, go_up, climb, tower, scale

ANT:Fall, descend, {[sinl]?}

阿弗丽达整理

解释:

v.i. to climb or mount up: to rise literally or figuratively: to go backwards in the order of time.—v.t. to climb or go up on: to mount.—adjs. Ascend′able Ascend′ible.—Ascending rhythm in prosody a rhythm in which the arsis follows the thesis as an iambic or anap鎠tic rhythm: opposed to descending rhythms as the trochaic and dactylic.

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