expedient是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 有用的, 有利的; n. 紧急的办法, 权宜之计，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A last expedient struck the captain.
-- The next expedient employed was to carry all the lambs over, hoping the mothers would be drawn after them, moved by their cries.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Knowing that Englishmen governed by a fixed idea sometimes resort to the desperate expedient of suicide, Passepartout kept a narrow watch upon his master, though he carefully concealed the appearance of so doing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I couldnot help observing that he seemed to think he had hit upon awonderful expedient for expressing himself in a neat, agreeable,and pointed manner, without the inconvenience of inventingconversation.
-- 'Since then, Ihave consulted other branches of my family on the course which itis most expedient for Mr. Micawber to take- for I maintain that hemust take some course, Master Copperfield,' said Mrs. Micawber,argumentatively.
-- Papa was very much depressed then, and more boweddown by care than ever you or I have seen him; but he seemedrelieved by this expedient of the partnership, though at the sametime he seemed hurt by it and ashamed of it.'
-- 'SIR-for I dare not say my dear Copperfield, 'It is expedient that Ishould inform you that the undersigned is Crushed.
-- '"When Mr. W.'s faculties andmemory for business became, through causes into which it is notnecessary or expedient for me to enter, weakened and confused,-HEEP- designedly perplexed and complicated the whole of theofficial transactions.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma was gratified, and would soon have shewn no want of words, if the sound of Mrs. Elton's voice from the sitting-room had not checked her, and made it expedient to compress all her friendly and all her congratulatory sensa-tions into a very, very earnest shake of the hand.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She has the glassy eyes and innocent air of a trafficker in flesh and blood, who will wax virtuously indignant to obtain a higher price for her services, but who is quite ready to betray a Georges or a Pichegru, if a Georges or a Pichegru were in hiding and still to be betrayed, or for any other expedient that may alleviate her lot.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The black manikin heard this plot, and at night when the soldier again ordered him to bring the princess, revealed it to him, and told him that he knew of no expedient to counteract this stratagem, and that if the shoe were found in the sol-dier's house it would go badly with him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That if his majesty, in consid-eration of your services, and pursuant to his own merciful disposition, would please to spare your life, and only give orders to put out both your eyes, he humbly conceived, that by this expedient justice might in some measure be satisfied, and all the world would applaud the lenity of the emperor, as well as the fair and generous proceedings of those who have the honour to be his counsellors.
-- 'The treasurer was of the same opinion: he showed to what straits his majesty's revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insup-portable; that the secretary's expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the com-mon practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat; that his sacred maj-esty and the council, who are your judges, were, in their own consciences, fully convinced of your guilt, which was a sufficient argument to condemn you to death, without the 82 Gulliver's Travelsformal proofs required by the strict letter of the law.
-- An expedient was therefore of-fered, 'that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express a particular business they are to discourse on.'
-- Several others declared their sentiments to the same purpose, when my master proposed an expedient to the assembly, whereof he had indeed borrowed the hint from me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After several abortive attempts to get Affery to look at him while she cleared the table and washed the tea-service, Arthur thought of an expedient which Flora might originate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they drew near to their destination, however, Mr. Bumble thought it expedient to look down, and see that the boy was in good order for inspection by his new master: which he accordingly did, with a fit and becoming air of gracious patronage.
-- When Noah saw that the intelligence he communicated perfectly paralysed Mr. Bumble, he imparted additional effect thereunto, by bewailing his dreadful wounds ten times louder than before; and when he observed a gentleman in a white waistcoat crossing the yard, he was more tragic in his lamentations than ever: rightly conceiving it highly expedient to attract the notice, and rouse the indignation, of the gentleman aforesaid.
-- the ham being kept clean and preserved from dust, by the ingenious expedient of making a hole in the loaf by pulling out a portion of the crumb, and stuffing it therein.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Lucas began directly to calculate, with more in-terest than the matter had ever excited before, how many years longer Mr. Bennet was likely to live; and Sir William gave it as his decided opinion, that whenever Mr. 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. James's.
-- It had been settled in the evening between the aunt and the niece, that such a striking civility as Miss Darcy's in coming to see them on the very day of her arrival at Pem-berley, for she had reached it only to a late breakfast, ought to be imitated, though it could not be equalled, by some ex-ertion of politeness on their side; and, consequently, that it would be highly expedient to wait on her at Pemberley the following morning.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be proper to conceal their engagement (if they ARE engaged) from Mrs. Smith and if that is the case, it must be highly expedient for Willoughby to be but little in Devonshire at present.
-- She had wandered away to a subject on which Elinor had nothing to say, and therefore soon judged it expedient to find her way back again to the first.
-- They passed some months in great happiness at Dawlish; for she had many relations and old acquaintances to cut and he drew several plans for magnificent cottages; and from thence returning to town, procured the forgiveness of Mrs. Ferrars, by the simple expedient of asking it, which, at Lucy's instigation, was adopted.
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