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。
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。
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 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；
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；
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。
But we are also strongly self-interested beings.
但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。
Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。
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。
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。