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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。