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复数:expediences
词根:expedite
adj.expedite 畅通的;迅速的;方便的
expedient 权宜的;方便的;有利的
adv.expediently 方便地;得当地;便利地
n.expedient 权宜之计;应急手段
expediency 方便,权宜;私利
vt.expedite 加快;促进;发出
"15世纪中期,指“优势,利益”,源自古法语 expedience,源自晚期拉丁语 expedientia,源自 expedientem(参见 expedient)。从“有益的事物”开始,意义逐渐转向“功利主义智慧”。指“有益性质”的意思始于17世纪。相关词汇: Expediency(17世纪)。
方便性
权宜办法
The first known use of expedience was in 1548
expediencenoun
expediency
1 All of this may serve expedience, create convenience and open up new revenue streams, but does little to leap us forward on energy technology and climate change.
2 “Where can an innocent priest go to restore his name when truth is sacrificed at the altar of expedience?”
3 Historian Pauline Maier noted that overzealous displays of empty patriotism driven by political expedience are as old as the nation itself.
4 “We are in a business where duty demands accuracy and where accuracy must trump expedience,” Loftis said.
5 Conference committees are sometimes skipped in the interest of expedience, in which one of the chambers relents to the other chamber.
6 And, in general, he shows Ferrar and the new friends he must make out of expedience being remarkably resourceful, whether paying off bureaucrats or sweet-talking the elite.
7 Less browsing and “product discovery” and more focus on the expedience of repurchasing.
8 Necessity has no law, and expedience is often one form of necessity.
需要所至无法律,而”为目的不择手段”经常是一种需要。
9 There is a sense in which morality and expedience need not conflict.
从一种意义上说,道义和利益不一定冲突。
10 Dismantling East Computing had been a simple matter of operations, of supply and demand and expedience.
11 But political supporters like Harvey Milk, newly elected to the board of supervisors, stuck by the increasingly fanatical leader, out of fear, expedience, or stubborn loyalty.
12 Greene’s mother, Mona Hardin called on Edwards to resign, saying he chose political expedience over justice in a man’s death.
13 But no one has rejected the possibility that he's just a shameless opportunist who panders to conspiracy theorists and bigots for money and political expedience.
14 Doing so sends a dangerous signal that moral arguments have no role in shaping the climate regime and that national expedience will regularly trump global deals.
这样做发出了一个危险的信号,即道德论据在塑造气候制度方面无法发挥任何作用,国家便利通常会打败全球协议。
15 HB 578 is an exercise in expedience that could be indulged again one day.
16 the proven expedience of the carrot over the stick in getting the most out of people
17 But have none of us ever done the wrong thing in the name of pride, expedience, or “the children”?
18 And white Republican leaders occasionally bowed to the violence out of political expedience.
19 Friends and foes around the world are carefully monitoring his actions, judging the strength of his convictions and calculating the circumstances where expedience may cause him to waver and abandon our values.
20 But what about more recent wine regions like California or Australia, where decisions about grapes, methods and styles of wine have often been made by individual entrepreneurs motivated by commercial expedience or ego?
1 便利
central handy feasible advantageous expedient well-suited conveniently handily commodiously service start facility accommodation availability convenience conveniency facilitate nifty perk perquisite convenient handsome serviceable commodious commodity easement expediency
3 得策
4 权宜
temporary makeshift expedient stopgap extemporaneous rough-and-ready expediential extemporarily expediently
5 上策
6 私利
7 权宜手段
8 方便
ready useful convenient handy usable expedient serviceable accommodative conveniently convenience facilitation serviceability conveniency commodious opportunity facility expediency well-suited
10 有利