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
- 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； - It offers little or no direct incentives for improvement to the knavish or self-interested professional or manager;
这对欺骗的或自谋利益的专业人士或管理人员来说，没有或者少有直接的动力去改善； - 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。 - 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。 - It is not enough to protect animals for self-interested reasons alone.
单单出于私利方面的考虑来保护动物是不够的。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。