新GRE常考察词汇ascendancy

　　ascendancy: 优势; governing or controlling influence

　　1) controlling influence; domination

　　ascendancy having no influence

　　Most histories of science are success stories that conclude on a triumphal note with the final ascendancy of a theory that is the basis of subsequent inquiries by later researchers.

　　【注解】triumphal: 胜利的ascendancy:优势subsequent:后来者 retrospective:回顾的, 向后看的extrapolation:推断rebuttal:反驳 反证