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

• But such complaints are drowned out by self-interested bickering in Congress.
  但这些抱怨被淹没在美国国会自私自利的争吵之中。
• 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。
• 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。
• Financial economics assumes that efficient valuation and capital allocation arises from self-interested selection among competing opportunities.
  金融经济学假设，有效的估值和资本配置源自对竞争性机会的利己选择。
• Windmills and solar cells hardly seem like ways of producing enough electricity to power a busy, self-interested world, as furnaces and steam-turbines now do.
  风车和太阳能电池很难生产足够的电力为繁忙追求经济利益的世界供电，像熔炉和蒸汽涡轮机那样。
• In its pure form, the economic theory of clubs assumes that each country and individual is completely self-interested and has no interest in helping any others.
  纯粹形式的俱乐部经济理论认为，每个国家和个人是完全自利的，他们对帮助别人没有任何兴趣。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。