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 processes create simplicity and order, but they also become entrenched and self-reinforcing.
  这些制度的建立使工作简单有序，但也同时不断自我强化，变得根深蒂固。
• 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。
• Without upheaval, deadlock would be entrenched.
  如果没有一场剧变，僵局就将形成。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。