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。 - 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； - 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。 - Many argue that banks have drifted from their basic social function to encourage growth by making loans, underwriting securities and advising companies into a self-interested drive to make money by any means possible.
许多人指出，银行已经偏离它们的基本社会职能通过发放贷款、承销证券和为企业提供咨询来促进经济增长变成了受自身利益驱动、不择手段赚钱的机构。 - 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。 - But such complaints are drowned out by self-interested bickering in Congress.
但这些抱怨被淹没在美国国会自私自利的争吵之中。 - 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。 - 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。 - A citizen, therefore, has no duty to obey laws, even though he may decide to obey them for self-interested or prudential reasons.
因此，即使公民可以因为自身利益或谨慎的原因而决定服从法律，他却没有服从法律的义务。 - 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。