expedient

expedient，英語單詞，主要用作形容詞、名詞，作形容詞時譯為“權宜的；方便的；有利的”，作名詞時譯為“權宜之計；應急手段”。

基本介紹

• 外文名：expedient
• 詞性：形容詞、名詞
• 英式發音：[ɪkˈspiːdiənt]
• 美式發音：[ɪkˈspiːdiənt]

單詞用法

1.N-COUNT An expedient is an action that achieves a particular purpose, but may not be morally right. 權宜之舉

2.ADJ If it is expedient to do something, it is useful or convenient to do it, even though it may not be morally right. 權宜的

短語搭配

field expedient 現場應急方法

expedient wisdom 權智

expedient means 方便

expedient factors 權變因素

Expedient quality 過硬的產品質量

expedient charges 權宜支出

expedient training 合理培育

雙語例句

The government has clearly decided that a cut in interest rates would be politically expedient.

政府顯然認定削減利率是政治上的權宜之計。

First, the weapons should be intended for use only in retaliation after a nuclear attack. Second, the possession of the weapons must be a temporary expedient.

首先，這些武器應當只在遭受核襲擊後反擊時才使用。其次，這些武器的擁有必須是一種臨時的應急手段。

The disease was controlled by the simple expedient of not allowing anyone to leave the city.

通過禁止任何人出城的簡單應急辦法使疾病得到了控制。