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.- Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。
- Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
双语例句
- Critics of untrammelled free markets have long attacked the assumption that markets are rational, driven by rational self-interested economic actors.
长期以来，不受约束的自由市场的批评家们一直在抨击下述假设：市场是理性的，它受到追逐私利的理性经济主体的推动。 - 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。 - 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。 - It offers little or no direct incentives for improvement to the knavish or self-interested professional or manager;
这对欺骗的或自谋利益的专业人士或管理人员来说，没有或者少有直接的动力去改善； - But we are also strongly self-interested beings.
但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。