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
- 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； - The nature of a state is a social man rather than an economic man, with a dualism of being both self-interested and altruistic.
国家的本性不是经济人，而是社会人，具有利己和利他的双重性。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - We are daily conditioned to think of human beings as "economic agents": as purely self-interested, endlessly calculating costs and benefits and highly sensitive to marginal gains and losses.
我们每天都要习惯于将人类想作“经济行为人”（economicagents）：完全利己、不停地计算成本和收益、对边际收益和损失高度敏感。 - 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。 - 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。 - Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。 - It is not enough to protect animals for self-interested reasons alone.
单单出于私利方面的考虑来保护动物是不够的。