Expediency

(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.

杰克校对

• At the point at which matters had now arrived, I rose superior to all considerations of mere expediency. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It ought to have been a habit with him by this time, of following his duty, instead of consulting expediency. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• 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. 简·爱.
• She then took another line of expediency, and looking into the doubtful room, observed, I do not think it _is_ so very small. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Even as a mere matter of expediency the proceeding was doubtful in the extreme. 威尔基·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. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Yet here too we may observe that what we term expediency is merely the law of right limited by the conditions of human society. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It substitutes the changing expediency of the moment for devotion to unswerving moral law. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He represented facts in so strong a point of view, that the expediency of the act must have appeared clear to every unprejudiced mind. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• 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·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Although the parliament of Great Britain had repealed the stamp-act, it was only upon the principle of expediency. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• 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. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The longer she considered it, the greater was her sense of its expediency. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The expediency I do not doubt; I am not so sure of the possibility. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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