self-interested
英 [ˌself ˈɪntrəstɪd]
美 [ˌself ˈɪntrəstɪd]
adj. 自私的;只为自己着想的
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 自私的;只为自己着想的
If you describe someone asself-interested, you disapprove of them because they always want to do what is best for themselves rather than for other people.- Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。
- Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
双语例句
- Based on or marked by a concern for self-interest rather than principle; self-interested.
基于私利的依自身利害而定的,基于私利而非原则考虑的; - But they should not detract from the case, both principled and self-interested, against fuel subsidies globally.
但无论是从原则上还是从自利出发,它们都不应转移我们对取消全球化石燃料补贴的关注。 - We are daily conditioned to think of human beings as "economic agents": as purely self-interested, endlessly calculating costs and benefits and highly sensitive to marginal gains and losses.
我们每天都要习惯于将人类想作“经济行为人”(economicagents):完全利己、不停地计算成本和收益、对边际收益和损失高度敏感。 - A citizen, therefore, has no duty to obey laws, even though he may decide to obey them for self-interested or prudential reasons.
因此,即使公民可以因为自身利益或谨慎的原因而决定服从法律,他却没有服从法律的义务。 - You also believe us to be self-interested; you are sure that we crave the umbrella that you, the clever foreigner, has thought to carry.
你还相信我们是注重私利的;你确定我们渴望获得你这个聪明的外国人想着随身携带的伞。 - These conditions are never fulfilled, but many markets come close enough that participants 'self-interested actions achieve good outcomes for all.
这些条件从未得到满足,但许多市场已与之非常接近,足以使参与者的利己行为取得对所有人都好的结果。 - Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。 - But we are also strongly self-interested beings.
但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。 - It offers little or no direct incentives for improvement to the knavish or self-interested professional or manager;
这对欺骗的或自谋利益的专业人士或管理人员来说,没有或者少有直接的动力去改善; - And there will be the self-interested critics that have a vested interest in not liking what you are doing and they will have reason to misunderstand.
届时将会有自利的批评,有一个不喜欢你正在做什么的既得利益,他们会产生误解的原因。