entrenched

英 [ɪnˈtrentʃt]

美 [ɪnˈtrentʃt]

v.  使处于牢固地位; 牢固确立
entrench的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：entrenched　过去式：entrenched　

TOEFL

BNC.14266 / COCA.12651

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使（权力、习俗、观念等）根深蒂固
  If something such as power, a custom, or an ideais entrenched, it is firmly established, so that it would be difficult to change it.
  1. ...a series of measures designed to entrench democracy and the rule of law...
     旨在巩固民主和法制的一系列措施
  2. These dictators have entrenched themselves politically and are difficult to move.
     这些独裁者在政治上已经站稳了脚跟，很难推翻他们。

英英释义

adj

• established firmly and securely
  1. the entrenched power of the nobility
• dug in

双语例句

• The oil money has entrenched an autocratic and corrupt political system that is resistant to change.
  石油赚来的外快已经确立了专制、腐败的政治体系，并且该体系拒接改变。
• Sexism is deeply entrenched in our society.
  性别歧视在我们这个社会根深蒂固。
• These will be difficult to get past entrenched opposition, never mind implement.
  这些改革将很难克服根深蒂固的反对，更别说具体执行了。
• Evolutionary selection pressure has probably entrenched the behavior in social animals such as ourselves.
  其原因大概是由于进化中的适者生存的压力固化了像我们这样的社会性动物的行为。
• But it has become so deeply entrenched in the economy that reform is politically fraught and economically disruptive.
  然而，该体制在经济中已经根深蒂固，要对它加以改革，在政治上势必充满艰险，在经济上还可能引起动荡。
• And bureaucracy and the culture of back covering were so entrenched that change was impossible.
  官僚作风和掩盖文化非常根深蒂固，改革几乎是不可能的。
• But as these trends have become more entrenched, the backlash has become more fierce.
  但随着这些趋势变得更加根深蒂固，其所激起的反对也变得更加激烈。
• The trouble is that imbalances in China and other Asian surplus countries seem entrenched.
  问题在于，中国和其它亚洲盈余国家的失衡似乎已根深蒂固。
• Once those two habits were firmly entrenched, my marathon goal was pretty much on autopilot.
  一旦这两个习惯牢固的树立了，我的马拉松目标就相当好实现了。
• These processes create simplicity and order, but they also become entrenched and self-reinforcing.
  这些制度的建立使工作简单有序，但也同时不断自我强化，变得根深蒂固。