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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Windmills and solar cells hardly seem like ways of producing enough electricity to power a busy, self-interested world, as furnaces and steam-turbines now do.
  风车和太阳能电池很难生产足够的电力为繁忙追求经济利益的世界供电，像熔炉和蒸汽涡轮机那样。
• 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。
• 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。