记忆方法
记忆“expedient”的方法是联想其组成部分。可以将它拆分为“ex”和“pedient”，其中“ex”可以联想到“extra”（额外的），而“pedient”可以想象成“ped”加上“ient”，其中“ped”类似于“pedal”（踏板），表示向前推进的动作。整体联想为在某个情境下采取额外的、推进性的行动是合适的，因此“expedient”意味着合适的、明智的。
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词族 · expedient
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中文词源
expedient 权宜之计
来自expedite, 加速。引申义权宜，权宜之计。比较汉语欲速则不达。
英语词源
- expedient (adj.)
- late 14c., "advantageous, fit, proper to a purpose," from Old French expedient "useful, beneficial" (14c.) or directly from Latin expedientem (nominative expediens) "beneficial," present participle of expedire "make fit or ready, prepare" (see expedite). The noun meaning "a device adopted in an exigency, that which serves to advance a desired result" is from 1650s. Related: Expediential; expedientially (both 19c.).
Expedient, contrivance, and device indicate artificial means of escape from difficulty or embarrassment; resource indicates natural means or something possessed; resort and shift may indicate either. [Century Dictionary]
权威例句
- 1. The disease was controlled by the simple expedient of not allowing anyone to leave the city.
- 通过禁止任何人出城的简单应急办法使疾病得到了控制。
- 2. The government found it expedient to relax censorship a little.
- 政府发现略微放宽审查是可取的.
- 3. It was expedient to retire gracefully.
- 体面的让步可算是权宜之计.
- 4. Do whatever is expedient.
- 权宜处置,怎么方便就怎么办.
- 5. I cut my purchases dramatically by the simple expedient of destroying my credit cards.
- 通过销毁信用卡这一简单的权宜之计，我大幅削减了自己的购物支出。