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

• Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
  狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Windmills and solar cells hardly seem like ways of producing enough electricity to power a busy, self-interested world, as furnaces and steam-turbines now do.
  风车和太阳能电池很难生产足够的电力为繁忙追求经济利益的世界供电，像熔炉和蒸汽涡轮机那样。
• 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。
• But we are also strongly self-interested beings.
  但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。
• 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。
• 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。