self-serving
英 [ˌself ˈsɜːvɪŋ]
美 [ˌself ˈsɜːrvɪŋ]
adj. 只为个人打算的; 一心谋私利的
牛津词典
adj.
- 只为个人打算的;一心谋私利的
interested only in gaining an advantage for yourself
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 只为个人打算的;一心谋私利的
If you describe someone asself-serving, you are critical of them because they are only interested in what they can get for themselves.- They suggest that my motives for proposing reform are self-serving and mercenary.
他们暗示说我之所以提议改革是贪图金钱,想谋取私利。 - ...corrupt, self-serving politicians.
贪污腐败、一心谋私利的政治家们
- They suggest that my motives for proposing reform are self-serving and mercenary.
英英释义
adj
- interested only in yourself
双语例句
- And yet even our most self-serving actions can be justified to ourselves.
然而,即便是做了哪些最为自私的事情,人们也能找到理由为自己开脱。 - Society needs banks but not the self-serving kind we have today.
社会需要银行,但不是当今那种自私的银行。 - As shown in several results, women today are a complex combination of altruistic and materialistic, vain and insecure, loyal and self-serving.
正如在一些研究中表明的一样,当今社会女人是利他和唯物,虚荣和不安全感,诚实和自私的矛盾体。 - I have read hundreds of business memoirs over the decades and many are boastful, self-serving and dull.
我在过去几十年间阅读了数百本企业家自传,其中许多都自吹自擂、别有所图、令人生厌。 - To some, these arguments might sound self-serving, if not a throwback to old Reagan-era free-market views.
在一些人看来,上述观点就算不是朝着里根时代旧自由市场观点的倒退,可能也有自私之嫌。 - In reality, everyone has self-serving agendas, but it is the level of harm to others that determines the level of trust in that person.
事实上,每个人都有自己的“计划安排”,但是决定对一个人信任程度大小的是对别人的造成伤害程度。 - While his intentions are to save lived and prevent injuries, this manger is perceived as vindictive, uncaring and self-serving.
当他的意图将解救居住问题和防止伤害,这一个职员被察觉存有恶意报仇之心,不关心和自私的。 - Bankers may be greedy, self-serving egomaniacs, but at least they are consistently greedy, self-serving and egotistical.
银行家可能是贪婪、自私的自大狂,但至少他们的贪婪、自私和自我是始终如一的。 - Anyone wanting companies run by a self-serving, self-recruiting cabal could hardly improve on this incestuous system.
任何希望公司由一个自私自利、中饱私囊的阴谋集团来经营的人,都几乎不可能改进这种朋比为奸的体系。 - He had a reputation for being politically officious and self-serving. I, a university student's life goal: Peasant woman, mountain spring, a little field.
他因在政治上爱管闲事和个人奋斗而出名。我,一个大学生的人生奋斗目标:农妇,山泉,有点田。
