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.
  1. Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
     狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• These conditions are never fulfilled, but many markets come close enough that participants 'self-interested actions achieve good outcomes for all.
  这些条件从未得到满足，但许多市场已与之非常接近，足以使参与者的利己行为取得对所有人都好的结果。
• One of the fundamental insights of behavioral economics is that people are not merely the rational, self-interested beings of Economics 101, but also emotional creatures, capable of altruism and influenced by the behavior of others.
  而行为经济学中的其中一个基本观点是：人类不仅仅是《经济101》中所提到拥有理性和自私，他们还是有感情的生物，敢于帮助别人，并且会受到其他人的影响。
• Recall that: Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of the marketplace leads self-interested buyers and sellers in a market to maximize the total benefit that society can derive from a market.
  回顾：亚当·斯密认为，市场的“看不见的手”引导着市场中自利的买者和卖者，使社会获得了可以从市场获得的最大收益。