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

• 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。
• 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。
• One of the fundamental insights of behavioral economics is that people are not merely the rational, self-interested beings of Economics 101, but also emotional creatures, capable of altruism and influenced by the behavior of others.
  而行为经济学中的其中一个基本观点是：人类不仅仅是《经济101》中所提到拥有理性和自私，他们还是有感情的生物，敢于帮助别人，并且会受到其他人的影响。
• 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；
• 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。
• They have self-interested reasons to do so, since the more data their users give them. The more valuable their networks become to advertisers, but it is a good idea nonetheless.
  它们这样做虽然有自身利益考虑，因为用户向它们提供的信息越多，它们的网络对广告主就越有价值，但这仍然是一个好主意。
• 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。
• 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 self-interested rational agent that populates some economic models would not behave like this.
  某些经济模型中自私的理性代理人不会这样做。
• 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。