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
- 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。 - Hanoi and Manila have their own self-interested reason for wooing the US, to hedge against China.
越南和菲律宾讨好美国是有私心的，那就是防范中国。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。