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单词 entrench
释义
entrench
verb[T]
mainlydisapproving
uk
/ɪnˈtrentʃ/us
/ɪnˈtrentʃ/
tofirmlyestablishsomething,especiallyanideaor aproblem, so that it cannot bechanged:
使处于牢固地位，使根深蒂固，牢固确立（尤指观念、问题）
The government'smaintaskwas topreventinflationfrom entrenching itself.政府的主要任务是防止通货膨胀问题积重难返。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not able to be changed
  • a leopard can't/doesn't change its spotsidiom
  • be no hard and fast rulesidiom
  • burnyourboats/bridgesidiom
  • congenital
  • continuity
  • deep-seated
  • incurably
  • inelastic
  • inelasticity
  • inflexible
  • ingrain
  • irreversibly
  • irrevocable
  • irrevocably
  • leopard
  • unalterable
  • unchangeable
  • uncompromising
  • uncompromisingly
  • unredeemable
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(Definition ofentrenchfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

entrench| Business English

entrench
verb[T]
uk
/ɪnˈtrentʃ/us
toestablishsomethingfirmlyso that it cannot bechanged:
Thisboldandcomprehensiveprogrammeaimstorestoregrowth, entrenchlowinflation, andreducethepublicdebt.
entrench yourself
toestablishyourselffirmlyin aposition,job, etc. so that it isdifficulttoremoveyou:
The company'smanagementanddirectorshave entrenched themselves bychangingthevotingrequirementsforexpansionof theboard.
(Definition ofentrenchfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofentrench

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This is not a process of a large number of competitors joining a system that thereby becomes entrenched.
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This was the newer of the two industrial areas, and the labor federations were not as entrenched among the unions there.
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And in any case, categorizing the 'unreasonable' as beyond the pale offers no practical guidance to marginalized groups facing entrenched, unreasonable opponents.
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It seems to have been fairly entrenched in independent music circles from the mid-1970s on.
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A firmly entrenched evolutionary perspective guided the modernization plans of the newly empowered government services.
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The onceforeign concepts of managed care, designated medical groups, and health management organizations, considered a distant threat, are now firmly entrenched.
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It seems equally impossible, however, for the deeply entrenched historiographical separation of the two states to continue.
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Interestingly, the human rights framework within which challenges to such prohibitions have been brought, further entrenches this public/private separation.
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This long-term trend became increasingly entrenched; and values of female dependence proved remarkably resilient in the face of pressures from the labour market.
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The authoritarian political system and the entrenched official thinking on social policy are mutually reinforcing.
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Their automated, internal reactions that also include ruminative scripts may then contribute to entrenched, generalized patterns that are later seen as anxiety and depression.
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These limit the degree of presidency-induced change by entrenching opposition to presidential direction.
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The more a given pattern is used, the more strongly entrenched it becomes and the more it becomes part of the ' 'grammar' ' of the language.
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Constructions that are highly entrenched are therefore units in the lexicon and easily accessed as such.
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This term is entrenched in the literature and its use is likely to continue.
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