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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In its pure form, the economic theory of clubs assumes that each country and individual is completely self-interested and has no interest in helping any others.
  纯粹形式的俱乐部经济理论认为，每个国家和个人是完全自利的，他们对帮助别人没有任何兴趣。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They have self-interested reasons to do so, since the more data their users give them. The more valuable their networks become to advertisers, but it is a good idea nonetheless.
  它们这样做虽然有自身利益考虑，因为用户向它们提供的信息越多，它们的网络对广告主就越有价值，但这仍然是一个好主意。