expedient
/ɪkˈspiːdi.ənt/ 名词 C2中文： 权宜之计、手段
- A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
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The remainder may be guessed by those whom genteel poverty has driven to ignoble expedient.
Collins should be in possession of the Longbourn estate, it would be highly expedient that both he and his wife should make their appearance at St.
It had been settled in the evening, between the aunt and niece, that such a striking civility as Miss Darcy’s, in coming to them on the very day of her arrival at Pemberley--for she had reached it only to a late breakfast--ought to be imitated, though it could not be equalled, by some exertion of politeness on their side; and, consequently, that it would be highly expedient to wait on her at Pemberley the following morning.
The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this expedient to rid himself of his importunities.
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