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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Can you say what some of these entrenched ideas are?
  你能说说某些这样根深蒂固的观念吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。