expedient
expedient 英 [ɪkˈspi:diənt] 美 [ɪkˈspidiənt]
adj. 权宜的；方便的；有利的 n. 权宜之计；应急手段
名词复数:expedients
- The adjective expedient describes something that provides an easy way to achieve a goal or result, but it's not necessarily a moral solution.
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- adj. 权宜的；方便的；有利的
- n. 权宜之计；应急手段
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1. There’s always something more practical or expedient I should be working on.
总是有些更实际或者有利的事情是我必须做的。
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2. If the absurd is not respected in it, we shall know by what expedient illusion enters in.
如果书中不尊重这荒谬，那么我们应该知道幻念作为权宜之计溜了进来。
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3. You can think of the inherent complexity as the principal, and the extra effort imposed by previous expedient shortcuts as the interest.
您可以把内在复杂度视为本金，而把前几条作为权宜之计的捷径所强加的额外工作视为利息。
- expedient (adj.) late 14c., "advantageous, fit, proper to a purpose," from Old French expedient "useful, beneficial" (14c.) or directly from Latin expedientem (nominative expediens) "beneficial," present participle of expedire "make fit or ready, prepare" (see expedite). The noun meaning "a device adopted in an exigency, that which serves to advance a desired result" is from 1650s. Related: Expediential; expedientially (both 19c.).
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