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
- But we are also strongly self-interested beings.
但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。 - Yes, I know that it might seem self-interested for me, an FT journalist, to point this out.
是的，我知道身为英国《金融时报》记者指出这一点或许像是一种自利行为。 - Critics of untrammelled free markets have long attacked the assumption that markets are rational, driven by rational self-interested economic actors.
长期以来，不受约束的自由市场的批评家们一直在抨击下述假设：市场是理性的，它受到追逐私利的理性经济主体的推动。 - 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。 - When external rules and internal ethics are both weak, self-interested actors push costs and risks on to others.
如果外部规则和内在道德都很薄弱，追逐私利的行动者就会将损失和风险推给他人。 - 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。 - I understand that, of course, but it is a very self-interested view, and fails to recognize the diversity of the Asian-American community.
当然，我理解，但这是一种非常自私的想法，没能认识到美国亚裔群体的多样性。 - They have self-interested reasons to do so, since the more data their users give them. The more valuable their networks become to advertisers, but it is a good idea nonetheless.
它们这样做虽然有自身利益考虑，因为用户向它们提供的信息越多，它们的网络对广告主就越有价值，但这仍然是一个好主意。 - 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。 - This paper proposes an explanation for the nature of the firm based on a coalition of self-interested individuals, who constitute the firm.
本文提出了一个有别于目前主流观点的企业理论：企业是一个自利经济人所组成的经济利益联合体。