Incomes controls were used only as a short-term expedient.控制收入只是短期的应对策略。

Surgical waiting lists were reduced by the simple expedient of striking off all patients awaiting varicose-vein operations.采取了将所有等待进行静脉曲张手术的病人从名单上删除的简单做法, 这一权宜之计使得外科手术等待名单得以缩减。

The story was a temporary expedient.这一借口是临时的应急之策。

They adopt the measures they regard to be most expedient.他们采取了他们认为最便利的方法。

It is not just politically expedient, but right in principle.这不仅是政治上的权益之举, 而且原则上也是正确的。

It is expedient that an atonement should be made.当务之急是要进行补偿。