self-serving

英 [ˌself ˈsɜːvɪŋ]

美 [ˌself ˈsɜːrvɪŋ]

adj.  只为个人打算的; 一心谋私利的

复数：self-servings　

法律

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.
  1. 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。
  2. ...corrupt, self-serving politicians.
     贪污腐败、一心谋私利的政治家们

英英释义

adj

• interested only in yourself
  Synonym:self-seeking

双语例句

• 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。
• Blatant self-serving agendas may cast doubt on one's trustworthiness.
  公然的“利己安排”也许会让别人对你的可信度产生怀疑。
• It has evolved into a self-serving elite; conspicuously, it has no base among the masses.
  党已经演变成一个服务于自身利益的精英集团，明显没有群众基础。
• As shown in several results, women today are a complex combination of altruistic and materialistic, vain and insecure, loyal and self-serving.
  正如在一些研究中表明的一样，当今社会女人是利他和唯物，虚荣和不安全感，诚实和自私的矛盾体。
• 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。
• You murderous self-serving traitor! It's over!
  你这残忍自私的叛徒，该结束了！
• This paradox illustrates one aspect of his brilliance: his ability to justify his actions, no matter how entirely self-serving, as being done for others.
  这一矛盾反映出他的某方面的智慧：他能将其所为合理化处理，即不论他是如何完全的为自己服务，也是为别人服务。
• 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。
• I have read hundreds of business memoirs over the decades and many are boastful, self-serving and dull.
  我在过去几十年间阅读了数百本企业家自传，其中许多都自吹自擂、别有所图、令人生厌。
• 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。