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

• In the process, he overhauled one of the most entrenched, straitlaced corporate cultures ever devised by man.
  在此过程中，他闯过了一个人类所发明的最大的壕沟，顽固的企业文化。
• 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 has repeatedly criticized Western churches as too worldly and too entrenched in consumerism.
  他一再批评西方教会过于世俗，消费主义观念过于顽固。
• Sexism is deeply entrenched in our society.
  性别歧视在我们这个社会根深蒂固。
• It shows how entrenched habits shape individual lives and analyses how those habits can be broken and rearranged.
  其中谈到了个人根深蒂固的习惯如何影响日常生活并分析了如何才能打破并改变个人习惯。
• 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。
• These problems may be entrenched, but they are superable.
  这些问题可能是根深蒂固的，但它们是可以被逾越的。
• 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。
• The subject's sense of safety and morality remain entrenched throughout the experience, however.
  不过，受测人的安全感和道德会在真个体验中纹丝不动。
• 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。