entrench
Significado: To establish something so firmly that change becomes very difficult or impossible. Originally, to dig trenches for military defence.
Entrench is overwhelmingly used in its figurative sense in modern English, nearly always with negative connotations. Entrenched interests, entrenched inequality, entrenched attitudes — the word implies rigidity and resistance to reform. In legal and constitutional contexts, an 'entrenched' right or clause is one that is especially difficult to amend or repeal, which can be positive. The military origin lends the word a sense of deep, dug-in immobility.
Ejemplos
- Decades of underinvestment have entrenched poverty in many former industrial communities. 数十年的投资不足使贫困在许多前工业社区根深蒂固。Décadas de inversión insuficiente han afianzado la pobreza en muchas antiguas comunidades industriales.数十年にわたる投資不足が、多くの旧工業地域において貧困を固定化させてきた。수십 년간의 투자 부족이 많은 구공업 지역에서 빈곤을 고착화시켜 왔다.
- The right to free speech is deeply entrenched in the American constitutional tradition. 言论自由权深深植根于美国的宪法传统之中。El derecho a la libertad de expresión está profundamente arraigado en la tradición constitucional estadounidense.言論の自由の権利は、アメリカの憲法の伝統に深く根付いている。언론의 자유에 대한 권리는 미국 헌법 전통에 깊이 뿌리내리고 있다.
- The report warned that remote working risked entrenching a two-tier workforce divided between office and home workers. 该报告警告称,远程办公有可能固化一种分为办公室和居家工人的二元劳动力结构。El informe advirtió de que el teletrabajo corría el riesgo de afianzar una fuerza laboral de dos velocidades, dividida entre trabajadores de oficina y trabajadores desde casa.その報告書は、リモートワークがオフィス勤務者と在宅勤務者に分かれた二層構造の労働力を固定化する恐れがあると警告した。그 보고서는 재택근무가 사무실 근무자와 재택 근무자로 양분된 이중 구조의 노동력을 고착화할 위험이 있다고 경고했다.
Pronunciación
Guía de uso
Contexto: journalism, academic, legal
Tono: critical
Origen e historia
From en- (in) + trench, from Old French trenchier (to cut). The military sense of digging defensive trenches dates from the 16th century; the figurative sense of establishing something firmly emerged in the 17th.
Contexto cultural
Era: Modern
Generation: All ages
Social background: Universal
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