英語字典

expediency

E 开头单词GRE词汇

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ɪk'spiːdɪənsɪ; ek-]
  • 美式音标 [ɪk'spidɪənsi]
  • 国际音标 [ik'spi:diənsi,-əns]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • n. 方便，權宜；私利；權宜之計

词根记忆

  • ex + ped(腳) + iency→把腳邁出去→權宜之計

同根派生

  • adj性質的同根詞
    expedite：暢通的；迅速的；方便的。
    expedient：權宜的；方便的；有利的。
  • adv性質的同根詞
    expediently：方便地；得儅地；便利地。
  • n性質的同根詞
    expedient：權宜之計；應急手段。
    expedience：私利；權宜；方便。
  • vt性質的同根詞
    expedite：加快；促進；發出。

英汉例句

  • This was a matter less of morals than of expediency.
    此擧衹是權宜之計，不關乎道德問題。
  • It was difficult to strike the right balance between justice and expediency.
    在公正與私利之間很難兩全.
  • There will always be tensions between principle and expediency.
    原則和權宜之計之間縂是矛盾重重.
  • This was a matter less of morals than of expediency.
    此擧衹是權宜之計，不關乎道德問題。
  • It was difficult to strike the right balance between justice and expediency.
    在公正與私利之間很難兩全.

词组短语

    短語

  • Not Expediency 不權宜之計
  • expediency convenience 利己
  • expedience expediency 權宜
  • expediency y 權宜之計
  • expediency behavior [經]權宜行爲

英英字典

    柯林斯英英字典

  • Expediency means doing what is convenient rather than what is morally right.

专业释义

    數學

  • 方便，權宜；私利