self-serving
英 [ˌself ˈsɜːvɪŋ]
美 [ˌself ˈsɜːrvɪŋ]
adj. 只为个人打算的; 一心谋私利的
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.- 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。 - ...corrupt, self-serving politicians.
贪污腐败、一心谋私利的政治家们
- They suggest that my motives for proposing reform are self-serving and mercenary.
英英释义
adj
- interested only in yourself
双语例句
- You murderous self-serving traitor! It's over!
你这残忍自私的叛徒,该结束了! - Some of these complaints are self-serving.
其中一些抱怨只考虑了自身的利益。 - 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。 - Many Argentines are fed up beyond measure with what they see as a corrupt and self-serving political system.
许多阿根廷人受够了他们所看到的腐败和自私自利的政治体制。 - ( Laughter) And we thought this was a very interesting comment on America, and a kind of self-serving, not my responsibility kind of phenomenon.
(笑声)我们觉得这是对美国的一种很有趣的评论,一种事不关己、高高挂起,明哲保身的现象。 - And yet even our most self-serving actions can be justified to ourselves.
然而,即便是做了哪些最为自私的事情,人们也能找到理由为自己开脱。 - 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。 - 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。 - Some evidence suggests that people with depression have very low self-serving bias& they think everything is their fault.
有证据表明,得忧郁症的人缺乏自利偏见,他们觉得所有的问题都是自己造成的。 - He had a reputation for being politically officious and self-serving. I, a university student's life goal: Peasant woman, mountain spring, a little field.
他因在政治上爱管闲事和个人奋斗而出名。我,一个大学生的人生奋斗目标:农妇,山泉,有点田。