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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The pursuit of unrealistic returns seems to have entrenched a culture of recklessness.
  为了追求不切实际的回报，金融业形成了一种不顾后果的鲁莽文化。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。