喜樂美語
  1. 1上升、攀登；（比喻）（地位、成就的）攀升、崛起

    An ascent is the act of climbing or going upward — the ascent of a mountain, or a plane's ascent into the sky. It's also used for someone rising in success, power, or status over time — 'his ascent to the top of the company was fast.'

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組成From a Latin word meaning 'to climb' — the same root gives us 'ascend,' 'descend' (climb down), and 'transcend' (climb beyond).

同家族的字

  • ascendthe verb form, sharing the Latin root meaning 'to climb'
  • descendthe opposite direction, sharing the same root

原始詞典資料6 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。

ascentnoun/əˈsɛnt/

  • 1

    The act of ascending; a motion upwards.

    • He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.
  • 2

    The way or means by which one ascends.

    • There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.
  • 3

    An eminence, hill, or high place.

  • 4

    The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; gradient; steepness

    • The road has an ascent of 5 degrees.
  • 5

    mediapublishingtypographyThe ascender height in a typeface.

  • 6

    An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy

    • That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.

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