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.
雙語例句
1. Why are Geography, Drama, Art and English in the ascendant?
為什么地理、戲劇、藝術和英語逐漸受寵？
來自柯林斯例句
2. Radical reformers are once more in the ascendant.
激進派改革者再度占據了統治地位。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Her star seems very much in the ascendant.
她看來吉星高照.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. His star was in the ascendant.
他那時正在走運.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
5. At first Athens was in the ascendant, then Sparta.