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； - 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 nature of a state is a social man rather than an economic man, with a dualism of being both self-interested and altruistic.
国家的本性不是经济人，而是社会人，具有利己和利他的双重性。 - They have self-interested reasons to do so, since the more data their users give them. The more valuable their networks become to advertisers, but it is a good idea nonetheless.
它们这样做虽然有自身利益考虑，因为用户向它们提供的信息越多，它们的网络对广告主就越有价值，但这仍然是一个好主意。 - I understand that, of course, but it is a very self-interested view, and fails to recognize the diversity of the Asian-American community.
当然，我理解，但这是一种非常自私的想法，没能认识到美国亚裔群体的多样性。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Recall that: Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of the marketplace leads self-interested buyers and sellers in a market to maximize the total benefit that society can derive from a market.
回顾：亚当·斯密认为，市场的“看不见的手”引导着市场中自利的买者和卖者，使社会获得了可以从市场获得的最大收益。 - 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。