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

• Corruption is entrenched and magnifying tensions between economic and religious groups is an easy route to power.
  腐败根深蒂固，而放大经济群体和宗教团体之间的紧张关系，是一条获得权力的捷径。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She also found more women entrenched in the non-entertainment serious games sector.
  她也发现，更多的女性扎根在非娱乐的严肃游戏部门。
• Sexism is deeply entrenched in our society.
  性别歧视在我们这个社会根深蒂固。