ascend
[ə'sɛnd]
vi. 升, 追溯, 登

vt. 攀登

1. The airplane ascended higher and higher.
   飞升。
2. The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series or progression; a culmination.
   顶点，点升序程；点
3. Why is expansion necessary to ascend?
   什展需升？

ascend
[ verb ]

1. travel up,

<verb.motion> go up
We ascended the mountain
go up a ladder
The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope

2. go back in order of genealogical succession

<verb.stative>
Inheritance may not ascend linearly

3. become king or queen

<verb.social>
She ascended to the throne after the King's death

4. appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils

<verb.motion> climb up
the vine climbed up the side of the house

5. go along towards (a river's) source

<verb.motion>
The boat ascended the Delaware

6. slope upwards

<verb.motion>
The path ascended to the top of the hill

7. come up, of celestial bodies

<verb.motion> come up rise uprise
The sun also rises
The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...
Jupiter ascends

8. move to a better position in life or to a better job

<verb.motion> move up rise
She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great

Ascend \As*cend"\, v. t.
To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go
up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a
river, a throne.


Ascend \As*cend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ascended}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Ascending}.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb,
mount. See {Scan}.]
1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to
{descend}.

Higher yet that star ascends. --Bowring.

I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx.
17.

Note: Formerly used with up.

The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --Addison.

2. To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an
inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects,
from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient
times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our
inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to
our first progenitor.

Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.