1. In an age without radio or recordings, an age dominated by print, fiction gained its greatest ascendancy. 在没有录音机和唱片的时代，亦即被印刷统治的时代，小说取得了它最大的支配地位。
2. 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。
3. His hatred, like a powerless though furious wave, was broken against the strong ascendancy which Mercds exercised over him. 他的仇恨象一个来势汹猛却又无力的浪头，被美塞苔丝所说的一番话击得粉碎。
英英解释
n.
1. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
