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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

  • 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。
  • 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;
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。