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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Across the middle of it a single sentence had been formed by the expedient of pasting printed words upon it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was only a soft-hearted grateful fellow, and had nothing genteel or polite about him; consequently, instead of going home again, in his grief, to kick the children and abuse his mother (for, when your finely strung people are out of sorts, they must have everybody else unhappy likewise), he turned his thoughts to the vulgar expedient of making them more comfortable if he could.
-- Mr Chuckster waxed wroth at this answer, and without applying the remark to any particular case, mentioned, as a general truth, that it was expedient to break the heads of Snobs, and to tweak their noses.
-- CHAPTER 47Kit's mother and the single gentleman upon whose track it is expedient to follow with hurried steps, lest this history should be chargeable with inconstancy, and the offence of leaving its characters in situations of uncertainty and doubt Kit's mother and the single gentleman, speeding onward in the post-chaise-and-four whose departure from the Notary's door we have already witnessed, soon left the town behind them, and struck fire from the flints of the broad highway.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were a number of skirmishes with Mrs. Hall on matters of domestic discipline, but in every case until late April, when the first signs of penury began, he over-rode her by the easy expedient of an extra payment.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I recalled a schoolboy expedient against big dogs, and twisted the rock into my handkerchief, and gave this a turn round my wrist.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The place is, indeed, invested,' returned Duncan; 'but is there no expedient by which we may enter?
-- The expedient was not without its use.
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