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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Sexism is deeply entrenched in our society.
  性别歧视在我们这个社会根深蒂固。
• Evolutionary selection pressure has probably entrenched the behavior in social animals such as ourselves.
  其原因大概是由于进化中的适者生存的压力固化了像我们这样的社会性动物的行为。
• But as these trends have become more entrenched, the backlash has become more fierce.
  但随着这些趋势变得更加根深蒂固，其所激起的反对也变得更加激烈。
• 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。
• 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。