It was my time to assume ascendency.

现在轮到我掌权了。

It's my belief, that the blow has given her such an ascendency of blood to the head as she'll never get the better from.

我相，打击使她的脑袋血流成河， 她永远也好不了了。

Brummell owed his ascendency to some curious combination of wit, of taste, of insolence, of independence--for he was never a toady--which it were too heavy-handed to call a philosophy of life, but served the purpose.

鲁梅尔的上位归功于某种奇特的机智、品味、傲立——因为他从来不是一个蛤蟆——太过严厉，不能称之为生活哲学，但却达到了目的。