expediency

英 [ɪkˈspiːdiənsi]

美 [ɪkˈspiːdiənsi]

n.  不得已而做的事; 权宜之计

复数：expediencies　

GRE

BNC.19527 / COCA.19664

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 不得已而做的事;权宜之计
  Expediencymeans doing what is convenient rather than what is morally right.
  1. It seems political expediency, rather than absolute economic need, will determine who gains from the conflict...
     看来是政治上的权宜之计，而不是绝对的经济需求，将决定谁会从这场冲突中获益。
  2. This was a matter less of morals than of expediency.
     此举只是权宜之计，不关乎道德问题。

英英释义

noun

• the quality of being suited to the end in view
  Synonym:expedience

双语例句

• The government is torn between principle and expediency.
  政府陷于原则与权宜的两难之境。
• We are sacrificing the long-term interest to short-term expediency.
  我们正在为暂时的权宜而牺牲长期的利益。
• A marriage for expediency rather than love.
  为了权宜而不是为了爱情而结婚。
• It had planted the seeds of violent extremism and sacrificed long-term stability to expediency.
  这种政策还埋下了暴力极端主义的种子，为了权宜之计而牺牲了长期稳定。
• The goals of the vicissitudes of tax system of China gradually change, but its immovability is coercion and expediency.
  在中国的税制变迁中，不断变化的目标背后相同的变迁理念是强制和权宜。
• Among these vanguards of the frontier the diet prescribed by available resources and field expediency became, to a degree, traditional.
  这些开拓先锋靠现有的资源和地域便利得到食物，从某种程度上讲，这也已构成了传统。
• Expediency is never an adequate justification.
  利已经从来不是充分的合法理由。
• Suggestive of or characterized by expediency, deceit, and cunning.
  显示出或以诡计、欺骗和狡诈为特征的。
• All his actions are governed by expediency.
  他所有的行动都是一种权宜之计。
• This was a matter less of morals than of expediency.
  此举只是权宜之计，不关乎道德问题。