查询词典 expedient

For all things are not expedient for all, and every kind pleaseth not every soul.

因为不是任何事，为所有的人都有益，也不是任何事，所有的人都喜欢。

We should seek expedient means to save ourselves and others, so that all are peaceful, happy and free of suffering.

我们应当寻求适宜的手段来拯救自己和其他人，以便使所有的和平，幸福和自由的痛苦。

The temptation, however, seems to be: do what is most expedient to achieve the desired outcome.

不过，诱人的做法是：做对于期待中结果最称得上权宜之计的事。

18 Practise then repentance which is expedient for you.

119：18练习，然后悔改，这是权宜之计，为你。

McCain said his position is the right one rather than the politically expedient one.

他说他的立场是正确的，不是政治上的权益之计。

Shift your attention from the expedient to the important.

将你的注意力从权宜之计转移到重要的事情上。

She thought it expedient not to tell her mother where she had been.

她认为还是不把自己去过哪里告诉母亲为好。

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。

But if some kind of very crueI crime becomes common, and none of the criminals can be caught, it might be highly expedient, as an example, to hang an innocent man, if a charge against him could be so frame that he were universally thought guilty; indeed this would only fail to be an ideal instance of utilitarian 'punishment' because the victim himself would not have been so likely as a real felon to commit such a crime in the future ; in all other respects it would be perfectly deterrent and therefore felicific.

但是如果有些非常残忍的犯罪成为常见，并且没有一个被抓获，这是有利的，例如，吊死一个无辜的人，如果对他的指控的诬陷程度可以使普遍的人认为他有罪的；事实上，这将成为一个证明功利主义惩罚失败的例子，因为再将来，受害人自己不可能犯此种重罪；在所有的其它方面中，他是最好的威慑因此能带来最多的幸福。

Better expedient could not have been adopted to secure the silence and discretion of Hetty.

没有比这个办法更能使海蒂保持沉默和谨慎了。

If you are unfortunate enough to the lovelorn, please tell me, I will help you out, really, please contact me!

如果你不幸失恋了，请告诉我，我会帮助你摆脱困境，真的，请联系我啦！

China's plan to cut energy intensity by 20 percent and pollutant discharges by 10 percent between 2006 and 2010 is a case in point.

中国计划在2006年到2010间降低20%的能源强度和减少10%的主要污染物排放，就是一个这样的例子。