中文翻译与英英解释

adj.
1.方便的，便利的，有利的；得当的，适当的。
2.权宜的，临时的。
短语和例子
Do whatever is expedient. 权宜处置，怎么方便就怎么办。 measures expedient for public welfare 有利公共福利的办法。 It is expedient that he should go. 他最好还是走。
n.
应急办法，权宜手段。 He is full of [fruitful in] expedients. 他办法多。 a temporary expedient 临时办法。 resort to an expedient 使手段。

serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"

appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"

a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one

例句与用法

What do you think of those two expedients ?
你觉得这两种办法怎么样？

It is expedient that he should go away at once !
他最好还是立刻走掉。

I fear it was wrong, though expedient .
恐怕这是不对的，虽然只好这样。

Step scanning is an expedient technique .
分段移位测量是一个实用的方法。

Morality, for him, means doing what is expedient .
对他来说，道德就是选方便的事做。

It is expedient that he should go .
他最好还是走。

Every kind of expedient was devised by our friends .
我们的朋友想出了各种各样的应急办法。

They resorted to various expedients to get the money together .
他们采取各种权宜之计筹款。

Do whatever is expedient .
怎么便利就怎么办。

It is expedient to leave this reasoning process for a while .
暂时先搁下这个推理过程是有益的。