| 词汇 | entrench |
| 释义 | entrench verb[ T ] mainly disapprovinguk /ɪnˈtrentʃ/ us /ɪnˈtrentʃ/ to firmly establish something, especially an idea or a problem, so that it cannot be changed: 使处于牢固地位，使根深蒂固，牢固确立（尤指观念、问题） The government's main task was to prevent inflation from entrenching itself.政府的主要任务是防止通货膨胀问题积重难返。 Not able to be changed a leopard can't/doesn't change its spotsidiom be no hard and fast rulesidiom burn your boats/bridgesidiom congenital continuity deep-seated incurably inelastic inelasticity inflexible inflexibly irreversibly irrevocable irrevocably leopard sb's way or the highwayidiom unchangeable uncompromising uncompromisingly unredeemable entrench | Business Englishentrench verb[ T ] uk /ɪnˈtrentʃ/us to establish something firmly so that it cannot be changed: This bold and comprehensive programme aims to restore growth, entrench low inflation, and reduce the public debt. entrench yourself to establish yourself firmly in a position, job, etc. so that it is difficult to remove you: The company's management and directors have entrenched themselves by changing the voting requirements for expansion of the board. Examples of entrenchentrench This is not a process of a large number of competitors joining a system that thereby becomes entrenched. This was the newer of the two industrial areas, and the labor federations were not as entrenched among the unions there. And in any case, categorizing the 'unreasonable' as beyond the pale offers no practical guidance to marginalized groups facing entrenched, unreasonable opponents. It seems to have been fairly entrenched in independent music circles from the mid-1970s on. A firmly entrenched evolutionary perspective guided the modernization plans of the newly empowered government services. The onceforeign concepts of managed care, designated medical groups, and health management organizations, considered a distant threat, are now firmly entrenched. It seems equally impossible, however, for the deeply entrenched historiographical separation of the two states to continue. Interestingly, the human rights framework within which challenges to such prohibitions have been brought, further entrenches this public/private separation. This long-term trend became increasingly entrenched; and values of female dependence proved remarkably resilient in the face of pressures from the labour market. The authoritarian political system and the entrenched official thinking on social policy are mutually reinforcing. Their automated, internal reactions that also include ruminative scripts may then contribute to entrenched, generalized patterns that are later seen as anxiety and depression. These limit the degree of presidency-induced change by entrenching opposition to presidential direction. 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. Constructions that are highly entrenched are therefore units in the lexicon and easily accessed as such. This term is entrenched in the literature and its use is likely to continue. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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