- 1優勢地位、主導權
When a person, group, or idea is in the ascendancy, they are on top, or on the way there: they have more power, more say, more room to move than the others. We often use the whole phrase in the ascendancy, as if power were a hill. It is a formal word. You meet it in history, , and serious news, not in a text to a friend. A party can be in the ascendancy; one idea can have ascendancy over another. Though actually, scientists who study living networks also use the word in a special way (a man called Robert Ulanowicz gave it that job), but that is not the meaning most need. For ordinary English, think: who is winning the quiet fight for control.
組成From ascend (to go up) + -ancy (a state or quality); some describe it as ascendant + -cy instead. Same idea: the state of having risen.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ascendancynoun/əˈsɛndənsi/
- 1
The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- Spurs ended the half in the ascendancy and Van der Vaart was again inches away from giving them the lead when he met Bale's cross but his header flew wide.
- The Tory hard right is in the ascendancy, and a fascist street movement – led by convicted fraudster Tommy Robinson – represents a growing threat.
- 2
biologyecologynatural-sciencesA quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network, and intended to indicate its ability to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size.
- Ascendency was found to be a useful indicator for the health assessment of marine benthic ecosystems over space and time.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- Protestant Ascendancy
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