Expediency
[ɪk'spiːdɪənsɪ;ek-] or [ɪk'spidɪənsi]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.
(n.) Expedition; haste; dispatch.
(n.) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
杰克校對
同義詞及近義詞:
[1]. Fitness, propriety, suitableness, advisability, desirableness.[2]. Advantage, profit, utility.
阿加莎手打
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Utility, advantage, interest
ANT:Inexpediency, disadvantage, inutility, detriment
阿琳整理
例句/造句/用法:
- At the point at which matters had now arrived, I rose superior to all considerations of mere expediency. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It ought to have been a habit with him by this time, of following his duty, instead of consulting expediency. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I was not fond of pampering that susceptible vanity of his; but for once, and from motives of expediency, I would e'en soothe and stimulate it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- She then took another line of expediency, and looking into the doubtful room, observed, I do not think it _is_ so very small. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Even as a mere matter of expediency the proceeding was doubtful in the extreme. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- After the tissue of social falsehoods in which she had so long moved it was refreshing to step into the open daylight of an avowed expediency. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Yet here too we may observe that what we term expediency is merely the law of right limited by the conditions of human society. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It substitutes the changing expediency of the moment for devotion to unswerving moral law. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- He represented facts in so strong a point of view, that the expediency of the act must have appeared clear to every unprejudiced mind. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It's merely a matter of expediency, you see, my girls will naturally take the lead, and this table is considered their proper place. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Although the parliament of Great Britain had repealed the stamp-act, it was only upon the principle of expediency. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He was never tired of looking at it, and even held a council with Eva on the expediency of getting it framed, to hang up in his room. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The longer she considered it, the greater was her sense of its expediency. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The expediency I do not doubt; I am not so sure of the possibility. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
整理:温弗雷德