ascent
[ə'sent]
n. 升, , 攀登, 坡路

1. Who was the first man to make an ascent in a balloon?
   乘气球升谁?
2. The last part of the ascent is very steep.
   段坡路很陡。
3. Melodic ascent and descent of pitch.
   旋律移声调旋律升

ascent
[ noun ]

1. an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

<noun.object>
the car couldn't make it up the rise

2. a movement upward

<noun.event>
they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon

3. the act of changing location in an upward direction

<noun.act>

Ascent \As*cent"\ [Formed like descent, as if from a F. ascente,
fr. a verb ascendre, fr. L. ascendere. See {Ascend},
{Descent}.]
1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward;
as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from
the earth.

To him with swift ascent he up returned. --Milton.

2. The way or means by which one ascends.

3. An eminence, hill, or high place. --Addison.

4. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it
makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade;
as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.