self-seeking

英 [ˌself ˈsiːkɪŋ]

美 [ˌself ˈsiːkɪŋ]

adj.  追逐私利的
n.  追逐私利

牛津词典

adj.

• 追逐私利的
  interested only in your own needs and interests rather than thinking about the needs of other people

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 追逐私利的;只顾自己的
  If you describe someone asself-seeking, you disapprove of them because they are interested only in doing things which give them an advantage over other people.
  1. He said that democracy would open the way for self-seeking politicians to abuse the situation.
     他说民主会为追逐私利的政客大开方便之门，使他们趁机以公谋私。

英英释义

noun

• taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others
  Synonym:opportunismself-interestexpedience

adj

• interested only in yourself
  Synonym:self-serving

双语例句

• Beware of self-seeking people who are only interested in your money.
  当心追逐私利者，他们只在乎你的钱。
• He is self-seeking rather selfless.
  他是自私自利而不是忘我的。
• It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it is keep no record of wrong.
  它不是粗鲁，不是自私，需要包容，不重复对方犯得错误。
• So pay attention to Chinese traditional thinking within the self-seeking center of gravity technique: "rectifying the mind, regulate the family, country and the world."
  所以中国传统思维注重内向自求，重心术：“正心、修身、齐家、治国、平天下。”
• Low and grovelling thoughts of God must be given up; doubting and despairing must be removed; and self-seeking and carnal delights must be forsaken.
  我们必须离弃卑贱低下的恩想，必须挪去怀疑悲观的意念，也必须抛除自我追求和属世的享乐。
• By the combination of theoretical analysis, empirical research, and design practice, complete the subject of mobile application development for the tour pal based on LBS for technical support, provides the way to self-seeking method of the tour pal outdoor activities.
  通过理论分析、实证研究、设计实践相结合的方式，完成以LBS为技术支持的驴友移动应用开发课题，为驴友户外驴行的自我寻求方法提供了实现途径。
• This article tries to reveal the growth of Zhang Jie's women's self-consciousness by analyzing the changing process of her true love and ideal and the journey of female's self-seeking.
  本文分析了张洁真爱理想的演变过程、女性自我的寻找历程，试图梳理出张洁女性意识的变化成长。
• Most of her colleagues are intolerant, self-seeking and shallow.
  她的多数同事偏执、自私和浅薄。
• Crime Subject of Engaging in Self-seeking Misconduct in Objectivism
  从客观主义的立场探讨徇私枉法罪主体
• Dreiser chose this theme not simply to caution the readers that the American Dream was only an illusion but to suggest his failure in self-seeking.
  德莱塞选择这个主题不仅想告诫读者美国梦是一个幻想而且也暗示了德莱塞在个人追求过程中的失败。