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

• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• But they should not detract from the case, both principled and self-interested, against fuel subsidies globally.
  但无论是从原则上还是从自利出发，它们都不应转移我们对取消全球化石燃料补贴的关注。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。