詞彙精選：ascend的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
v.
攀登，登高，爬坡 [I,T]
例句：
A small party is planning to ascend Mount Everest.
一小夥人正計劃攀登珠穆朗瑪峯。
例句：
Then we ascend steeply through forests of rhododendron.
然後我們在杜鵑花叢中沿着陡坡向上爬。
上升 [I,T]
例句：
A number of staircases ascend from the cobbled streets onto the ramparts.
一段石階從鵝卵石路上一直向上直通城牆。
例句：
They move freely from one department to another as they ascend the civil service ladder.
隨着仕途晉升，他們可以在部門間隨意調動。
追溯 [I]
例句：
Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.
我們的研究上溯遠古。
例句：
His ancestors ascend to the 15th century.
他的祖先可上溯到十五世紀。
繼承 [T]
例句：
She ascended the throne upon the death of her father.
她在她父親去世後繼承王位。
例句：
Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ ascended the throne when her father died.
伊麗莎白二世在他父親死後繼承王位。
二、詞義辨析：
ascend,climb,mount
這些動詞均含有“攀登，上升”之意。ascend正式用詞，指不用手攀，一直上升直到相當高的地方。climb普通用詞，含義廣泛，側重運用手足費力地攀登或上升，也可指抽象事物。mount書面用詞，詞義與ascend相近，強調連續不斷地向上移動、攀登或上漲。指騎馬時用mount。
三、參考例句：
Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.
我們的研究上溯遠古。
His ancestors ascend to the 15th century.
他的祖先可上溯到十五世紀。
His roots ascend to the 15th century.
他的祖先可上溯到十五世紀。
A small party is planning to ascend Mount Everest.
一小夥人正計劃攀登珠穆朗瑪峯。
Then we ascend steeply through forests of rhododendron.
然後我們在杜鵑花叢中沿着陡坡向上爬。
A small party was planning to ascend Mt. Everest.
一小隊人在計劃攀登珠穆朗瑪峯。
The path started to ascend more steeply at this point.
這條路從這裏向上就更陡了。
It took him less than 30 minutes to ascend the 799-foot skyscraper.
他只用了不到30分鐘的時間就爬上了799英尺的摩天大樓。
Miss Panama Justine Pasek, first runner-up, is to ascend to the title of Miss Universe 2002.
環球小姐亞軍的巴拿馬小姐帕塞克，將接下2002年環球小姐頭銜。
It can ascend to the period of the First World War.
這可以追溯到第一次世界大戰時期。
