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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Without upheaval, deadlock would be entrenched.
  如果没有一场剧变，僵局就将形成。
• The trouble is that imbalances in China and other Asian surplus countries seem entrenched.
  问题在于，中国和其它亚洲盈余国家的失衡似乎已根深蒂固。
• Sexism is deeply entrenched in our society.
  性别歧视在我们这个社会根深蒂固。
• 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。