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

• A person who places expediency above principle.
  把方便私利凌驾于法则原则之上的人。
• There will always be tensions between principle and expediency.
  原则和权宜之计之间总是矛盾重重。
• 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。
• But in the argument between justice and expediency, both must have their say.
  但在公正和偏私之间的争论，两边各执一词。
• 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？
• But this policy of expediency only encourages others to try the same con.
  但这种权益之计只会鼓励其他人尝试同样的欺诈伎俩。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Expediency is never an adequate justification.
  利已经从来不是充分的合法理由。