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

• 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。
• 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。
• Society needs banks but not the self-serving kind we have today.
  社会需要银行，但不是当今那种自私的银行。
• 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。
• If they have self-serving motives, or their values are out of step with our own, emotional intelligence becomes a weapon of manipulation and the results can be devastating.
  当他们产生谋私利的动机，或者他们的价值观与我们的不合拍时，情商就会变成操控他人情绪的武器，其后果不堪设想。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Instead, youll only paint yourself in a negative and self-serving manner the complete opposite of what you want.
  相反，你只会塑造不积极和自私的个人形象这跟你想要的完全相反。
• In reality, everyone has self-serving agendas, but it is the level of harm to others that determines the level of trust in that person.
  事实上，每个人都有自己的“计划安排”，但是决定对一个人信任程度大小的是对别人的造成伤害程度。