entrench

英語

其他形式

intrench (古舊)

詞源

16世紀中葉，en- +‎ trench

發音

(英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ɪnˈtɹɛntʃ/, /ɛnˈtɹɛntʃ/
(美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ɛnˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/
（澳洲）音頻： (檔案)
韻部：-ɛntʃ
斷字：en‧trench

動詞

entrench (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 entrenches，現在分詞 entrenching，一般過去時及過去分詞 entrenched) (及物、不及物)

(建設，考古學) 挖壕溝
(軍事) 將...用壕溝圍起來，用壕溝防守
The army entrenched its camp, or entrenched itself.
軍隊用在軍營周圍挖了壕溝。或軍隊用壕溝進行防守。
(比喻義) 穩固地位
Senator Cornpone was able to entrench by spending millions on each campaign.
Cornpone參議員在競選活動上花了上百万以後才得以鞏固自己的地位。
- 2009, Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew O'Hara, 「Forward」, 出自 Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America，第 4 頁:
  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.
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- 2013年9月28日, Kenan Malik, 「London Is Special, but Not That Special」, 出自 New York Times, retrieved 28 September 2013:
  For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.
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入侵；佔領，搶佔；擅闖（常帶on或upon）
犁
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- 1667, John Milton, 「Book I」, 出自 Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
  His face
  Deep scars of thunder had entrenched.
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(比喻義) 墨守成規；頑固不化

近義詞

(挖溝)： trench
(圍以壕溝)： dig in
(穩固地位)： consolidate