make a virtue of necessityADVANTAGEto get an advantage from doing something that you have to do, or to pretend that you are doing it willingly (假装)把必须要做的事情当作好事来做;不得已而力争有所得make a virtue of necessity• But Simon does not merely make a virtue of necessity.• But since response from ministers by the 1840s was extremely circumspect the reformers were probably making a virtue of necessity.
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