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

• The nature of a state is a social man rather than an economic man, with a dualism of being both self-interested and altruistic.
  国家的本性不是经济人，而是社会人，具有利己和利他的双重性。
• Based on or marked by a concern for self-interest rather than principle; self-interested.
  基于私利的依自身利害而定的，基于私利而非原则考虑的；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The paper considers that the conflicts between sociality of norms and self-interested of company regulations, which occurs in public areas, lead to public crisis.
  社会规范的社会性和公司规则的自利性在公共领域会发生冲突导致公司公共危机产生。
• Rousseau was an early and incisive critic of the idea that self-interested behaviour would necessarily work to the benefit of all.
  卢梭是较早对下述观点提出尖锐批评的人：自利行为必定会造福所有人。
• And there will be the self-interested critics that have a vested interest in not liking what you are doing and they will have reason to misunderstand.
  届时将会有自利的批评，有一个不喜欢你正在做什么的既得利益，他们会产生误解的原因。
• 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。