英语释义

1. a concern for one's own advantage and well-being
acted out of self-interest and fear

2. one's own interest or advantage
self-interest requires that we be generous in foreign aid

3. concern only for getting what you want or need and not about what happens to other people

4. your own interest or advantage

片语

hardfisted自私的；吝啬的

self-interested man自利人

self-interested behavior principle自利行为原则

Self-interested states自利国家

self-interested individuals自利经济人

self-interested regulation监管者自利

self-interested principle自利性

assumption of self-interested company自利公司的设想

asocial自私的；不合群的；缺乏社交性的

non-self-interested trust非自利型信任

英汉例句

• if 「everybody is like that」 — if everybody must be like that — we need not feel guilty about our own self-interested behavior or try to change it.

  如果「每个人都像那样」——如果每个人都一定像那样——我们不需要为自己的自私行为感到自责，也不需要努力去改变它。

• so what did adam smith mean by rational and self-interested behavior?

  因此，亚当斯密什么意思理性和自我利益的行为呢？

• today only the deluded would argue that markets are self-correcting or that we can rely on the self-interested behavior of market participants to guarantee that everything works honestly and properly.

  今天只有那些仍执着于这种理念的人才会坚称市场可以自我纠错，才会相信市场主体的自利行为可以确保世界良好运转。

• windmillsand solar cells hardly seem like ways of producing enough electricity to powera busy, self-interested world, as furnaces and steam-turbines now do.

  风力发电和太阳能电池板看上去也不可能产生足够的电力来驱动一个繁忙而又极度利己主义的世界，就像锅炉与汽轮机现在做的那样。

• this wasn「t a perfect strategy, or even a noble one, but it was supremely self-interested approach that ensured u.s. primacy for decades.

  这不是什么完美的策略，甚至并不高尚。但却非常自利，确保了美国数十年的国际领先地位。

• the way to bring socialists and capitalists together is to recognize that markets are efficient and that self-interested human behavior requires social regulation.

  融合社会主义者和资本主义者的途径是认识到市场是有效的，而人们的自利行为须受社会调控。

• for the self-interested reason that a united but tough palestinian front would be better able to make peace with israel than a divided one.

  因为这对以色列有利，一个团结、坚决的巴勒斯坦政府能更好地同以色列达成和平。

• this stance has a superficial logic.and it may have a more self-interested rationale.

  这一立场有一个表面的逻辑，也许还具有某种自圆其说的程式。

• and it may have a more self-interested rationale.

  它可能包含一个更加自利的理由。

• looked at from that angle, the orderliness we see on the roads is a general expression of the capacity for human society to work in the context of self-interested individualism.

  从这一角度来看，我们在道路上看到的有序不过是人类社会能在自利的个人主义背景下进行运转的通用表达而已。

• the big four has the expertise, and ought to also have a ton of self-interested motivation to get this fixed.

  四大会计师事务所拥有足够的技术和巨大动机来推动这一系统的实现。

• 「this is the most self-interested thing we have ever done,」 he said.

  「这是我们从来没有做过的最自私自利的事情，」他说。

• it is simply a bit of bulgaria, amputated by the rise of post-war yugoslavia and then hijacked by self-interested local politicians (some romanian nationalists see moldova the same way).

  在南斯拉夫战争后它被分割出去，以后又被当地的自利的政客所劫持（一些罗马尼亚人对摩尔多瓦抱有同样的观点）。

• in georgia’s enclaves, russian forces have acted as self-interested troublemakers, not as neutral peacekeepers.

  在格鲁吉亚属地，俄兵是自利的麻烦制造者而非中立的和平维护者。

• within asia, friction is growing over self-interested nationalist policies that pit one country」s manufacturing sector against another.

  在亚洲，自利的国家主义政策也加剧了各国制造业之间的斗争和摩擦。

• yet this is where the parallels run out. in georgia’s enclaves, russian forces have acted as self-interested troublemakers, not as neutral peacekeepers.

  俄罗斯的破绽暴露于此，在格鲁吉亚的飞土问题上，俄罗斯军队扮演的角色是自私自利的惹事者，而不是中立的维和者。

相似词

subjective主观的；个人的；自觉的

相反词

selflessness无私；忘我

unselfishness不自私；慷慨