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.
  1. Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
     狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。

双语例句

• It is not enough to protect animals for self-interested reasons alone.
  单单出于私利方面的考虑来保护动物是不够的。
• The self-interested rational agent that populates some economic models would not behave like this.
  某些经济模型中自私的理性代理人不会这样做。
• Critics of untrammelled free markets have long attacked the assumption that markets are rational, driven by rational self-interested economic actors.
  长期以来，不受约束的自由市场的批评家们一直在抨击下述假设：市场是理性的，它受到追逐私利的理性经济主体的推动。
• But we are also strongly self-interested beings.
  但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。
• 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。
• Yes, I know that it might seem self-interested for me, an FT journalist, to point this out.
  是的，我知道身为英国《金融时报》记者指出这一点或许像是一种自利行为。
• Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
  狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。
• This paper proposes an explanation for the nature of the firm based on a coalition of self-interested individuals, who constitute the firm.
  本文提出了一个有别于目前主流观点的企业理论：企业是一个自利经济人所组成的经济利益联合体。
• 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；
• The paper considers that the conflicts between sociality of norms and self-interested of company regulations, which occurs in public areas, lead to public crisis.
  社会规范的社会性和公司规则的自利性在公共领域会发生冲突导致公司公共危机产生。