expediency
英 [ɪkˈspiːdiənsi]
美 [ɪkˈspiːdiənsi]
n. 不得已而做的事; 权宜之计
复数：expediencies
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.- 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。 - 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。
- It seems political expediency, rather than absolute economic need, will determine who gains from the conflict...
英英释义
noun
- the quality of being suited to the end in view
双语例句
- All his actions are governed by expediency.
他所有的行动都是一种权宜之计。 - 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。 - A person who places expediency above principle.
把方便私利凌驾于法则原则之上的人。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - However, sharing data via the file system is inherently slow, because disk input and output operations cannot match the expediency of memory.
但是，通过文件系统共享数据很慢，因为磁盘输入和输出操作的效率远远比不上内存。 - 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。