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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Financial economics assumes that efficient valuation and capital allocation arises from self-interested selection among competing opportunities.
金融经济学假设，有效的估值和资本配置源自对竞争性机会的利己选择。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - But we are also strongly self-interested beings.
但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。