ascendancy

UK:  [ə'sendənsi]

US:  [ə'sendənsi]

n.

1.优势;权势;主权

2.上风,盛行一时,支配地位

3.崛起

1 . In a sense, the Queen, or Elizabeth Windsor as some choose to call her, is the last symbol of an old ascendancy that has gone forever.
在某种意义上，女王或者可以称呼她伊丽莎白·温莎，是已一去不复返的古老统治时代的最终标记。

2 . Is Akio ducking criticism of being a beneficiary of nepotism by accusing us and trying to justify his ascendancy to the top job?
丰田章男是否通过谴责我们而回避了那些对他是裙带关系受益人的批评，以确保其在公司领导层的统治地位？

3 . Just over a century ago, French would have appeared to have attained an undisputed claim to such ascendancy.
仅一个多世纪前，法语看来已经获得了对这种优势的无可争议的要求。

4 . Upon his ascendancy to Galactic Emperor, Darth Sidious had no further need of the Separatists.
坐稳银河皇帝宝座之后，达斯·西帝厄斯已不再需要分离主义者了。

5 . AMONG the consequences of Silvio Berlusconi's long ascendancy over Italy is the numbing of his compatriots' democratic sensibilities.
贝卢斯科尼的意大利同胞们的民主情感麻木是他当政下的后果之一。