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.- Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。
- Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
双语例句
- Some of these measures are self-interested, some of them matters of principle.
以上措施有的是出于自利，有的属于原则方面的问题。 - 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。 - 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。 - Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。 - 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 we are also strongly self-interested beings.
但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。 - 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。 - 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。 - It offers little or no direct incentives for improvement to the knavish or self-interested professional or manager;
这对欺骗的或自谋利益的专业人士或管理人员来说，没有或者少有直接的动力去改善； - 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。