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

• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The paper considers that the conflicts between sociality of norms and self-interested of company regulations, which occurs in public areas, lead to public crisis.
  社会规范的社会性和公司规则的自利性在公共领域会发生冲突导致公司公共危机产生。
• Yes, I know that it might seem self-interested for me, an FT journalist, to point this out.
  是的，我知道身为英国《金融时报》记者指出这一点或许像是一种自利行为。