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

• Our star is in the ascendant, my friend.
  我的朋友，我们的星座上升。
• 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。
• We will provide the ascendant working environment and broad space for personal career development.
  提供优越的工作环境及广阔的个人发展空间。
• The situation cannot now be reversed as you hold the ascendant position, and progress is speeding ahead.
  现在的情势不可逆转，因为你们抓住了这个优势的位置，进程在加速向前。
• While his career was in the ascendant, bissell's private life was causing him increasingly sever problems.
  正当他的事业如日中天时，比斯尔的私生活却给他带来许多问题。
• 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。
• His party is no longer in the ascendant.
  他的党已不再占优势。
• Of course, I knew that Sagittarius was your ascendant.
  当然，我早就知道你是人马座。
• 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。