necessary evil

常見(jiàn)例句

Spam filtering solutions are a necessary evil in today's e-mail climate.
在如今的電子郵件時(shí)代中，垃圾郵件過(guò)濾解決方案是非常重要的。
Members of an ad hoc student committee wore black T-shirts with a quotation from Edmund Burke: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
學(xué)生臨時(shí)組成的委員會(huì)成員穿了黑色T賉，上麪印著埃德矇-柏尅的話：“邪惡獲勝，衹因善者袖手旁觀”。
In Paris the idea that a free-market liberal may believe he is defending a moral position (rather than a necessary evil) often causes surprise.
在巴黎，自由市場(chǎng)主義者可能相信他是在防守道義立場(chǎng)（而不是必要之惡）的觀點(diǎn)時(shí)常令人咋舌。

Early termination fees have always represented the flipside of subsidized pricing -- the necessary evil that keeps free phones free.
ENGADGET: FCC gives Verizon the third degree over $350 'advanced device' ETF
Unfortunately, they seem to be a necessary evil in this crazy supply-versus-demand world of capitalism we all call home, particularly in light of the spectrum crunch the FCC keeps warning us about.
ENGADGET: Cricket's new tiered data plans seem like a model for the industry to us
The fixtures throughout the Lodge are entirely done by Rocky Mountain Hardware--understated sand-cast bronze with a natural coating that allows the metal to blend into its environment--and in the mercifully small and hidden salon (a necessary evil in all spas) for sanitary reasons, the pedicure areas use copper basins and no jets.
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