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
- 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。 - 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。 - I understand that, of course, but it is a very self-interested view, and fails to recognize the diversity of the Asian-American community.
当然,我理解,但这是一种非常自私的想法,没能认识到美国亚裔群体的多样性。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。
