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

• Without upheaval, deadlock would be entrenched.
  如果没有一场剧变，僵局就将形成。
• 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 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。
• Once those two habits were firmly entrenched, my marathon goal was pretty much on autopilot.
  一旦这两个习惯牢固的树立了，我的马拉松目标就相当好实现了。
• 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。
• 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 concepts are usually firmly entrenched in the minds of those who have studied general science or chemistry.
  这些概念是在那些研究普通科学或化学的人们头脑中牢固树立的基本概念。
• Sexism is deeply entrenched in our society.
  性别歧视在我们这个社会根深蒂固。
• 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。
• 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。