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ascendancy n.统治权；支配力量 (1) 他(获)有压倒一切主要对手的优势。(2) 他完全受制于其妻。 If you look at ascendancy, you see the word, ascend, which means to go up. Ascendancy is not so much about going up, but about being up. Another word for it is dominance, especially in the context of foreign or domestic relations. In school, if you question a teacher's ascendancy, you might be told to go to the principal's office. In this case, you're challenging the teacher's authority.

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英 [ə'sendənsi] 美 [ə'sendənsi] (1) He has (gained) the ascendancy over all his main rivals.(2) He is completely under his wife's ascendancy. When you assume ascendancy over someone else, you become more powerful than they are. Ascendancy is the state of being in a higher position. 1[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]优势；权势；支配地位 If one group has ascendancy over another group, it has more power or influence than the other group.   [FORMAL 正式]Although geographically linked, the two provinces have long fought for political ascendancy...尽管在地理上彼此依存，两省却长期为获取政治支配权你争我夺。The extremists are gaining ascendancy.极端分子正逐渐占据上风。

英语单词	ascendancy
英美音标	英 [ə'sendənsi] 美 [ə'sendənsi]
中文释义	n.统治权；支配力量
英语例句	(1) He has (gained) the ascendancy over all his main rivals. (2) He is completely under his wife's ascendancy.
中文例句	(1) 他(获)有压倒一切主要对手的优势。 (2) 他完全受制于其妻。
vocabulary简明	When you assume ascendancy over someone else, you become more powerful than they are. Ascendancy is the state of being in a higher position.
vocabulary扩展	If you look at ascendancy, you see the word, ascend, which means to go up. Ascendancy is not so much about going up, but about being up. Another word for it is dominance, especially in the context of foreign or domestic relations. In school, if you question a teacher's ascendancy, you might be told to go to the principal's office. In this case, you're challenging the teacher's authority.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]优势；权势；支配地位 If one group has ascendancy over another group, it has more power or influence than the other group. [FORMAL 正式] Although geographically linked, the two provinces have long fought for political ascendancy... 尽管在地理上彼此依存，两省却长期为获取政治支配权你争我夺。 The extremists are gaining ascendancy. 极端分子正逐渐占据上风。

Ascendancy Teacher's 英 ə'Sendənsi] 美 ə'Sendənsi N.统治权；支配力量 Gained Main