剑桥高阶英汉双解词典 - ascendancy collapse

ascendancy
(ALSO ascendency) /ə'sen.dənt.si/
noun [U] formal
* a position of power, strength or success
权势显赫，处尊居显；优势，支配地位

1. They are in danger of losing their political ascendancy (= controlling power).
他们的政治权位岌岌可危。

2. Supporters of the proposal are currently in the ascendancy over its opponents (= are more powerful than them).
议案的支持者目前占据上风（压倒了反对者）。

柯林斯COBUILD高阶英汉双解学习词典 - ascendancy collapse

ascendancy
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.

【STYLE标签】：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。

牛津高阶英汉双解 第7版 - ascendancy collapse

ascendancy
as·cend·ancy (also as·cend·ency) / E5sendEnsi / noun [U]
   (formal) ~ (over sb / sth) the position of having power or influence over sb / sth
   支配地位；优势；影响:
    moral / political / intellectual ascendancy
   道德影响；政治支配地位；智力优势
   The opposition party was in the ascendancy (= gaining control).
   反对党已渐占优势。

新牛津英语同义词词典 - ascendancy collapse

ascendancy

noun
the ascendancy of good over evil
DOMINANCE , domination, supremacy, superiority, predominance, pre-eminence, primacy, dominion, hegemony, authority, mastery, control, command, power, sway, rule, sovereignty, lordship, leadership, influence; the upper hand, the whip hand, the edge, advantage; rare predomination, paramountcy, prepotence, prepotency, prepollency.
-opposite(s): SUBORDINATION.

词源记忆 - ascendancy collapse

ascendancy

ascendancy：支配地位

发音释义：[ə'send(ə)nsɪ] n. 支配地位，优势，统治地位

结构分析：ascendancy = a（=ad，去）+scend（攀爬）+ancy（名词后缀）→攀爬到高处→支配地位

词源解释：scend←拉丁语scandere（攀爬）

同源词：ascend（攀爬、上升）；ascendant（上升的）；descend（下降）；descendant（下降的、后裔）