To hold on stubbornly,as to a position;entrench oneself.

固执地坚持立场;稳固自己的地位

arguments that only entrench you more firmly in error.

那些只能使你更加坚持错误的争辩

to entrench upon the rights of others

侵害他人之权利

It also realises that attempts to bring communities together quicker than they are ready to will only generate resentment, resistance and further entrench divisions.

又认识到，如果超越各族群的意愿而令其快速融合，则足以引发怨恨、抗拒而加深彼此的疏离。

||1:The technologies expected to dominate the new decade also seem to cast a dark shadow.||2:Artificial intelligence (AI) may well entrench bias and prejudice, threaten your job and shore up authoritarian rulers.||3:5G is at the heart of the Sino-American trade war.||4:Autonomous cars still do not work, but manage to kill people all the same.||5:Polls show that internet firms are now less trusted than the banking industry.||6:At the very moment banks are striving to rebrand themselves as tech firms, internet giants have become the new banks, morphing from talent magnets to pariahs.||7:Even their employees are in revolt.

||1:预计将主导下一个十年的技术似乎也蒙上阴影。||2:人工智能(AI)很可能会加深偏见和歧视，威胁到你的工作，支持独裁统治者。||3:5G是中美贸易战的核心。||4:自动驾驶汽车仍然不能正常使用，但仍然可以杀人。||5:民意调查显示，互联网公司现在比银行业更不受信任。||6:就在各大银行努力将自己打造成科技公司的同时，互联网巨头却成为了新型银行，从吸引人才的“磁铁”变成了“社会弃儿”。||7:甚至其员工也在反抗。

||1:As an early proponent of gay marriage, this newspaper shares Mr Kim’s sentiments.||2:Bigotry is abhorrent and laws that entrench it should be condemned.||3:Uganda’s new law, which allows a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for anyone convicted of homosexuality and requires citizens to report anyone suspected of being gay, is particularly awful.||4:Nonetheless, Mr Kim’s initiative is misguided.||5:The World Bank is a technocratic development organisation, not a place for political advocacy.||6:Setting up gay rights as a test of its lending decisions is likely to make the bank less effective at what Mr Kim himself has emphasised is its core job: tackling extreme poverty.

||1:作为一个早期的同性恋婚姻支持方，《经济学人》与Kim先生感情一致。||2:世界不允许偏见，维系偏见的法律也应当受到谴责。||3:乌干达的新法不仅允许对同性恋实行终身监禁这一最高刑罚，还要求市民对任何可能的同性恋进行举报，这是尤其可怕的。||4:然而，Kim先生发起的行动还是被误导了。||5:世行是一个技术主导的发展组织而不是用作政治倡议的。||6:设置同性恋权利作为其贷款政策的检测关卡可能会使得世行在消除极端贫困问题的效率上大打折扣，Kim先生曾经强调这是世行的核心任务。

Some see the LTSE as a disguised ploy to entrench the power of founders, early investors and,

一些人认为LTSE是一种巩固创始人、初期投资者以及

Newly-enfranchised citizens in the Arab world face the task of building institutions to entrench the rule of law.

阿拉伯世界刚赢得政治权利的公民们，面临着建立制度、巩固法治的任务。

But will regulators bless the deal? Global customers of iron ore believe it will entrench the miners’ pricing power.

但监管机构会同意这宗交易吗？全球各地的铁矿石消费者认为，它将巩固矿商的定价权。

Institutional investors then entrench the system by relying heavily on ratings when deciding what securities to buy.

而机构投资者在决定购买何种证券时，却严重依赖这些评级，令其对系统的影响进一步扩大。

The judge ruled that the settlement circumvented copyright law and would “further entrench ” Google’s dominance in internet searches.

法官裁定，规避版权法的和解协议将“进一步巩固”谷歌在互联网搜索中的垄断地位。

Nobody expects it to be free or fair, and the constitution has been doctored to entrench a dominant role for the army.

没有人希望它是自由、公平的选举。宪法也被篡改以牢固地确立军队的统治地位。

Nokia is hoping its strategy will entrench Symbian as the dominant mobile operating system for smartphones.

诺基亚希望它的战略能够牢固树立Symbian作为智能手机主要移动操作系统的地位。

entrench ( v. ) : establish securely(used in passive voice or with a reflexive pronoun)

确保（地位等）；确立（用于被动语态或与反身代词连用）

The European states, however, remained as kleptocracies that worked to protect, extend and entrench the wealth of the ruling classes.

然而，欧洲国家保护、扩大、确认统治阶级的财富，依然维护着盗贼统治。

And the League’s promise of magnanimity has been overshadowed by brazen attempts to entrench its rule.

人民联盟党的宽宏大量在不择手段地全力巩固自身政权面前暗然失色。

The lure of membership has helped to entrench stability and democracy, first in the southern Mediterranean and now in central Europe.

入盟的诱惑已经在保持稳定和民主方面发挥了作用，首先在地中海以南现在是中欧。

Our monetary regime continues to move Britain towards stable growth and we will consider any necessary reforms to entrench that stability.

我们的货币政策制度，继续推动英国经济保持稳定增长，而我们将会考虑任何必要的改革措施，以巩固这种稳定性。

Rather, they encourage decline, entrench divisions and thus threaten the harmony they pretend to nurture.

相反，这些政策鼓励减少开支，加深分歧，因此也威胁着他们假惺惺维护的和谐。

The new establishment has yet to entrench a solid political system, despite endorsing two constitutions since Saddam was ousted.

新的法律尚未建立牢固的政治体系，虽然自萨达姆政权覆灭后有两部宪法的支持。

Some cities, such as Beijing, have introduced policies that could entrench the hukou system and all the prejudices that go with it.

一些城市，如北京，已经出台政策巩固户口制度，所有的偏见也随之而来。

They were designed not so much to pass power to civilian politicians as to entrench the junta’s own power.

这次大选与其说是有意将权力交与平民政治家们，不如说是有意借此机会加强军政府自己的力量。

The danger is that the German presidency will entrench this lop-sided approach.

这样所带来的危险便是德国成为轮值主席国后，将会加剧这一偏差。

Until now, the MDC had strongly opposed the amendments on the ground that they would entrench the ruling party ahead of the election.

直到此前为止，民运都强烈反对那些可能加强执政党选举中领先地位的修正案。

entrench upon

v.侵犯

entrench oneself

vt.以壕沟防护,确立自己的地位

entrench oneself in

扎根于...

entrench upon the truth

违背真理