Ascendant
[ə'send(ə)nt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) position or state of being dominant or in control; 'that idea was in the ascendant'.
(adj.) most powerful or important or influential; 'the economically ascendant class'; 'D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe' .
(adj.) tending or directed upward; 'rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage'- John Ruskin .
埃维塔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Ascent; height; elevation.
(n.) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.
(n.) Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
(n.) An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant.
(a.) Alt. of Ascendent
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Horoscope.[2]. Superiority, predominance, ascendency, superior influence, controlling influence.
a. [1]. Rising, above the horizon.[2]. Superior, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, surpassing.
編輯:波西亚
例句/造句/用法:
- Across it Egypt, and whatever power was ascendant in the north, fought for empire; against its people they fought for a trade route. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Oh, star ascendant at my birth! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- There is an ascendant feeling among the people that all achievement should be measured in human happiness. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Both in England and on the Continent the ascendant rulers seized upon Christianity as a unifying force to cement their conquests. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For a time, after the death of Ali, the Omayyad family was in the ascendant, and for nearly a century they gave rulers to Islam. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The caste system Yuan Chwang found fully established in spite of Buddha, and the Brahmins were now altogether in the ascendant. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- By sea or land men want no Powers ascendant, but only law and service. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- At first Athens was in the ascendant, then Sparta. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He who is watching the ascendant ideas of American life can afford to feel that the early maxims of capitalism are doomed. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Do you think my fortunate star is in the ascendant? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- For a time Egypt was the ascendant power. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The luctuosa hereditas, the mournful succession of ascendants to descendants, to the twentieth penny only. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Direct successions, or those of descendants to ascendants, pay no tax. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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