late 14c., ascendent, astrological use is earliest, from Middle French ascendant (noun and adjective) and directly from Latin ascendentem (nominative ascendans), present participle of ascendere "to mount, ascend, go up" (see ascend). Sense "moving upward, rising" is recorded from 1590s. In the ascendant "ruling, dominant" (not, as is often thought, "rising") is from 1670s.
双语例句
1. 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？
来自柯林斯例句
2. Radical reformers are once more in the ascendant.
激进派改革者再度占据了统治地位。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Her star seems very much in the ascendant.
她看来吉星高照.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. His star was in the ascendant.
他那时正在走运.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
5. At first Athens was in the ascendant, then Sparta.
