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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - But we are also strongly self-interested beings.
但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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； - 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。