ascent
名词 n.
英 /əˈsɛnt/
美 /əˈsɛnt/|/əˈsent/
英文释义
名词 n.
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The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
— He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.
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The way or means by which one ascends.
— There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.
- An eminence, hill, or high place.
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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.
- The ascender height in a typeface.
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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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词汇关系
词源
Formed from ascend on the model of descend/descent.
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