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 my case the Greeter custom of favoring the middle name became entrenched, and I have regretted it.
  就我本人而言，对中间名的青睐这一致意者的习惯根深蒂固，我后来后悔了。
• If you know me, you know that I am firmly entrenched in the "vintage" camp.
  如果你知道我，你会知道我是坚定地站在经典老笔这边的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。