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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But they should not detract from the case, both principled and self-interested, against fuel subsidies globally.
  但无论是从原则上还是从自利出发，它们都不应转移我们对取消全球化石燃料补贴的关注。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。