| 释义 |
in the ascendantRising in power or influence: the reformers are in the ascendant...- By that time electronic telegraph was in the ascendent, and would grow to supplant the European semaphore networks.
- The politics section gets the most heated - sometimes it seems the right is in the ascendent, sometimes the left - but there's also some excellent news you might not get elsewhere.
- Tories had already suffered losses in the Irish general election of 1713, at a time when the party was still in the ascendant in England.
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