| 单词 | expedient |
| 释义 | ex·pe·di·ent I. 1. < the harvest had been bad, and it was found expedient, for their better provision, to disperse the troops over a broader area — J.A.Froude > < it is not necessary, and probably not even expedient, to pilfer the secret files of the foreign office — H.J.Morgenthau > 2. obsolete < I will with all expedient duty see you — Shakespeare > 3. < morality, for the state, means doing what is expedient — H.S.Agar > Synonyms: < so long as the Stuarts were ruling at St. James's, speculative theocrats found it expedient to gloss their principles with nice distinctions between temporal and spiritual overlords — V.L.Parrington > < purely for expedient reasons he let the Iroquois alone — Hervey Allen > politic may apply to what is judicious and wise according to the practicalities of the situation < before he faced the head of the Osborne house with the news which it was his duty to tell, Dobbin bethought him that it would be politic to make friends of the rest of the family, and, if possible, have the ladies on his side — W.M.Thackeray > < the alacrity with which the German intellectual world submitted to Hitler is proof that, if it knew nothing of politics, it as least knew how to be politic — Martin Greenberg > advisable describes what is practical, prudent, and advantageous and lacks the occasionally derogatory implications of expedient and politic < in the circumstances, Superintendent, it seems to me advisable to adjourn the inquest until you have completed your investigations — Dorothy Sayers > < I do not say that either psychology or medicine or penology has yet arrived at such a stage as to make a revolution in our system of punishment advisable — B.N.Cardozo > II. 1. < rules of thumb generally … are a lazy man's expedient for ridding himself of the trouble of thinking and deciding — B.N.Cardozo > 2. < through so much traveling I had had to learn all sorts of expedients and prepare for all sorts of emergencies — V.G.Heiser > Synonyms: see resource |
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