self-serving
英 [ˌself ˈsɜːvɪŋ]
美 [ˌself ˈsɜːrvɪŋ]
adj. 只为个人打算的; 一心谋私利的
牛津词典
adj.
- 只为个人打算的;一心谋私利的
interested only in gaining an advantage for yourself
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 只为个人打算的;一心谋私利的
If you describe someone asself-serving, you are critical of them because they are only interested in what they can get for themselves.- They suggest that my motives for proposing reform are self-serving and mercenary.
他们暗示说我之所以提议改革是贪图金钱,想谋取私利。 - ...corrupt, self-serving politicians.
贪污腐败、一心谋私利的政治家们
- They suggest that my motives for proposing reform are self-serving and mercenary.
英英释义
adj
- interested only in yourself
双语例句
- To some, these arguments might sound self-serving, if not a throwback to old Reagan-era free-market views.
在一些人看来,上述观点就算不是朝着里根时代旧自由市场观点的倒退,可能也有自私之嫌。 - The basic stumbling block to global peace rests with the self-serving ambitions of many nations.
全世界和平的基本障碍物在于许多国家谋私利的野心。 - A lot of people avoid doing this they say its too self-serving.
很多人会避免这么做他们会觉得这样显得太功利了。 - We can safely assume that some are benevolent and altruistic; some are evil and self-serving; and others may have agendas we can only guess at and may be beyond human understanding.
我们可以有把握地做出猜测,有些外星人是仁慈的和无私的,有些是邪恶和自私自利的,还有其他一些有什么样的目的我们只能去猜测,可能是超出人类理解的。 - Bankers may be greedy, self-serving egomaniacs, but at least they are consistently greedy, self-serving and egotistical.
银行家可能是贪婪、自私的自大狂,但至少他们的贪婪、自私和自我是始终如一的。 - He had a reputation for being politically officious and self-serving. I, a university student's life goal: Peasant woman, mountain spring, a little field.
他因在政治上爱管闲事和个人奋斗而出名。我,一个大学生的人生奋斗目标:农妇,山泉,有点田。 - They suggest that my motives for proposing reform are self-serving and mercenary.
他们暗示说我之所以提议改革是贪图金钱,想谋取私利。 - Society needs banks but not the self-serving kind we have today.
社会需要银行,但不是当今那种自私的银行。 - But it has no monopoly on self-serving policies.
但施行自私自利政策的国家并非只有它一个。 - ( Laughter) And we thought this was a very interesting comment on America, and a kind of self-serving, not my responsibility kind of phenomenon.
(笑声)我们觉得这是对美国的一种很有趣的评论,一种事不关己、高高挂起,明哲保身的现象。
