entrenched

1. VERB 使（权力、习俗、观念等）根深蒂固
   If something such as power, a custom, or an idea is 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。

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. Sexism is deeply entrenched in our society.
   性别歧视在我们这个社会根深蒂固。
4. At one stroke our troops overcome the enemy entrenched on the island.
   我军一举歼灭了盘踞海岛的敌人。
5. 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。
6. She also found more women entrenched in the non-entertainment serious games sector.
   她也发现，更多的女性扎根在非娱乐的严肃游戏部门。
7. 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。
8. Tax-free salaries and comfortable career paths encourage entrenched views and organisations out of step with modern working practices.
   免税工资与舒适的职业道路鼓励了根深蒂固的观点，使国际组织跟不上现代工作实践的步伐。
9. And bureaucracy and the culture of back covering were so entrenched that change was impossible.
   官僚作风和掩盖文化非常根深蒂固，改革几乎是不可能的。
10. He had been entrenched at the Abidjan residence with a band of loyal fighters.
    他和一伙效忠他的军人在阿比让的住所固守。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. If you know me, you know that I am firmly entrenched in the "vintage" camp.
    如果你知道我，你会知道我是坚定地站在经典老笔这边的。
21. The subject's sense of safety and morality remain entrenched throughout the experience, however.
    不过，受测人的安全感和道德会在真个体验中纹丝不动。
22. 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。
23. Corruption is entrenched and magnifying tensions between economic and religious groups is an easy route to power.
    腐败根深蒂固，而放大经济群体和宗教团体之间的紧张关系，是一条获得权力的捷径。
24. Without upheaval, deadlock would be entrenched.
    如果没有一场剧变，僵局就将形成。
25. 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。
26. The oil money has entrenched an autocratic and corrupt political system that is resistant to change.
    石油赚来的外快已经确立了专制、腐败的政治体系，并且该体系拒接改变。
27. But it has become so deeply entrenched in the economy that reform is politically fraught and economically disruptive.
    然而，该体制在经济中已经根深蒂固，要对它加以改革，在政治上势必充满艰险，在经济上还可能引起动荡。
28. 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？
29. 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。

adj

1. established firmly and securely
   1. the entrenched power of the nobility

2. dug in