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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• Many argue that banks have drifted from their basic social function to encourage growth by making loans, underwriting securities and advising companies into a self-interested drive to make money by any means possible.
  许多人指出，银行已经偏离它们的基本社会职能通过发放贷款、承销证券和为企业提供咨询来促进经济增长变成了受自身利益驱动、不择手段赚钱的机构。
• Rousseau was an early and incisive critic of the idea that self-interested behaviour would necessarily work to the benefit of all.
  卢梭是较早对下述观点提出尖锐批评的人：自利行为必定会造福所有人。
• These conditions are never fulfilled, but many markets come close enough that participants 'self-interested actions achieve good outcomes for all.
  这些条件从未得到满足，但许多市场已与之非常接近，足以使参与者的利己行为取得对所有人都好的结果。
• One of the fundamental insights of behavioral economics is that people are not merely the rational, self-interested beings of Economics 101, but also emotional creatures, capable of altruism and influenced by the behavior of others.
  而行为经济学中的其中一个基本观点是：人类不仅仅是《经济101》中所提到拥有理性和自私，他们还是有感情的生物，敢于帮助别人，并且会受到其他人的影响。
• But we are also strongly self-interested beings.
  但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。