| 词汇 | ascendancy |
| 释义 | ascendancy noun[ U ] formal(alsoascendency)uk /əˈsen.dən.si/ us /əˈsen.dən.si/ a position of power, strength, or success: 权势显赫，处尊居显；优势，支配地位 They are in danger of losing their political ascendancy (= controlling power).他们的政治权位岌岌可危。 Supporters of the proposal are currently in the ascendancy over its opponents (= are more powerful than them).提案的支持者目前占据上风（压倒了反对者）。 Power to control absolute authority ahold all's well that ends wellidiom all-powerful authoritarianism be above someone's pay gradeidiom discretionary girl power grip he who pays the piper calls the tune.idiom hegemonic implant power grab power structure power struggle power vacuum power-sharing the hand that rocks the cradle rules the worldidiom the upper hand yoke Examples of ascendancyascendancy This discourse often included a protest against the ascendancy of those exercising power or force. The importance of technological innovation in health care is due to the historical ascendancy of scientific medicine over other therapies. Despite the recent ascendancy of free market economics, however, the case for state intervention has strengthened not weakened. Language is the vessel that steers hegemonic ideas into ascendancy and perpetuates a particular vision of the world. This served to reinforce the middle-class cultural ascendancy while demeaning the values of another culture. Suggestions cover a wide spectrum, from sober realism to unbridled hype, although happily the former appears to be gaining ascendancy. The ascendancy of large jars is also indicated by a further drop in the overall bowl-to-jar ratio. There need have been no signs in the arm; the bacteraemia could have silently gained ascendancy. A variety of convenient features have led to its ascendancy. Thus, when structur-alist linguistics was in the ascendancy, the content of language courses was specified in terms of sentence patterns. Yet his ascendancy owed more to the internal politics of the new ruling party than to his religious identity. A more diffused growth pattern stressing metropolitan planning and mainland development through a satellite city gains ascendancy. The reproduction of their families and the reproduction of their relations with the state reinforced each other as strategies for the perpetuation of their ascendancy. I suggest that the critics have gained ascendancy mainly because the defence has been neither multi-dimensional nor multi-national. The hypothesized co-occupation of the valley means that there were no invaders and no "invaded" population but, rather, two distinct interacting groups competing for ascendancy. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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