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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• These conditions are never fulfilled, but many markets come close enough that participants 'self-interested actions achieve good outcomes for all.
  这些条件从未得到满足，但许多市场已与之非常接近，足以使参与者的利己行为取得对所有人都好的结果。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。