- 1使根深蒂固；鞏固（常帶貶義，指難改的權力、習慣）
Picture soldiers digging a trench — a long ditch — and sitting in it. Once they are in, they are hard to move. From that picture, English uses entrench for ideas, habits, power, and rules: you entrench them, or they become entrenched, meaning they sit so deep in a group or a system that they are not likely to change. Writers often use it with a , when they wish the thing would change: a party that wants to entrench its power, a custom that only entrenchs . You can still use it in the old army way (to dig in), but will meet the “fixed and not moving” sense far more, especially in news. The usual shapes are entrench their power and become / be entrenched rather than a simple everyday “I entrench it.”
組成en- + trench. First attested in the 1550s: to put someone or something into a trench, then later “fix so it will not move.”
同家族的字
- trenchoriginally: put yourself in a trench so you cannot easily be moved
- entrenchedthe usual adjective: already fixed and not likely to change
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
entrenchverb/ɪnˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/
- 1
To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
- It was this very sword entrenched it.
- His face Deep scars of thunder had entrenched.
- 2
archaeologybusinessconstructionTo cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
- 3
governmentmilitarypoliticsTo cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
- The army entrenched its camp, or entrenched itself.
- To the south were the Varden and the men of Surda, entrenched behind multiple layers of defense, where they displayed a fine panoply of woven standards, ranks of proud tents, and the picketed horses of King Orrin's cavalry.
- 4
To become completely absorbed in and fully accept one's beliefs, even in the face of evidence against it and refusing to be reasoned with.
- 5
To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
- Senator Cornpone was able to entrench by spending millions on each campaign.
- Given these entrenched ideological assumptions about the colonial order, it is no wonder that the state and those groups with an interest in the status quo viewed with suspicion and hostility any challenges to the fixed and "natural" boundaries between different sorts of people.
- 6
To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。