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

• 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。
• Tax-free salaries and comfortable career paths encourage entrenched views and organisations out of step with modern working practices.
  免税工资与舒适的职业道路鼓励了根深蒂固的观点，使国际组织跟不上现代工作实践的步伐。
• 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 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。
• He had been entrenched at the Abidjan residence with a band of loyal fighters.
  他和一伙效忠他的军人在阿比让的住所固守。
• In it, the Harvard professor of education challenges entrenched notions of cognitive development.
  在书中，这位来自哈佛大学（Harvard）的教育学教授向认知发展理论的传统观念发起了挑战。
• 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。
• Can you say what some of these entrenched ideas are?
  你能说说某些这样根深蒂固的观念吗？
• S leadership is well entrenched in many of the world's most important institutions.
  在全球许多最为重要的机构中，美国的领先地位根深蒂固。
• 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。