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

• Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?& in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable?
  在政府中，如果实际上不是由大多数人而是由良知来决定正误的，而大多数人只决定那些适用于便利规则的问题，这样的政府不可能存在吗？
• The crafty lawyer was influenced more by expediency than by the love of justice.
  那狡黠的律师受利害的影响更甚于受正义之心的影响。
• Treaties and constitutions are a means of limiting the ability of States to sacrifice long-term benefits to expediency. But not of eliminating it.
  条约和宪法是限制政府为了谋求一时方便而牺牲长期利益的能力的一种手段，但它们并不能消除这种能力。
• The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
  律师的事实不是真理，而是坚持或始终如一的私利。（猎人）
• Compromises made now for the sake of expediency cause entropy to build up in your software.
  现在为了权宜而做的折衷将导致软件中的熵不断增大。
• This was not from any love of the subject I considered folklore a poor relation to literature but out of sheer expediency.
  这绝不是因为我热爱这个题材在我心目中，民俗是文学的一个穷亲戚而只是纯粹的权宜之计。
• For me integrity, not expediency, and deeply rooted in the values of the intrinsic business requirements.
  诚信对于我，不是权宜之计，而深深植根于企业的价值观的内在要求。
• 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。
• But Bosnians concluded that, even when the EU sets tough conditions, political expediency will find a way round them.
  但波斯尼亚人得出的结论是，即使欧盟设置的条件苛刻，政治上的权宜之计终会找到一个解决方法。
• Money and position seemed all that mattered. a person who places expediency above principle.
  金钱和地位似乎凌驾于一切之上。把方便私利凌驾于法则原则之上的人。