self-serving
英 [ˌself ˈsɜːvɪŋ]
美 [ˌself ˈsɜːrvɪŋ]
adj. 只为个人打算的; 一心谋私利的
牛津词典
adj.
- 只为个人打算的;一心谋私利的
interested only in gaining an advantage for yourself
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 只为个人打算的;一心谋私利的
If you describe someone asself-serving, you are critical of them because they are only interested in what they can get for themselves.- They suggest that my motives for proposing reform are self-serving and mercenary.
他们暗示说我之所以提议改革是贪图金钱,想谋取私利。 - ...corrupt, self-serving politicians.
贪污腐败、一心谋私利的政治家们
- They suggest that my motives for proposing reform are self-serving and mercenary.
英英释义
adj
- interested only in yourself
双语例句
- We can safely assume that some are benevolent and altruistic; some are evil and self-serving; and others may have agendas we can only guess at and may be beyond human understanding.
我们可以有把握地做出猜测,有些外星人是仁慈的和无私的,有些是邪恶和自私自利的,还有其他一些有什么样的目的我们只能去猜测,可能是超出人类理解的。 - You murderous self-serving traitor! It's over!
你这残忍自私的叛徒,该结束了! - It has evolved into a self-serving elite; conspicuously, it has no base among the masses.
党已经演变成一个服务于自身利益的精英集团,明显没有群众基础。 - I mean, I know that sounds self-serving.
我是说我知道这有点自私。 - To some, these arguments might sound self-serving, if not a throwback to old Reagan-era free-market views.
在一些人看来,上述观点就算不是朝着里根时代旧自由市场观点的倒退,可能也有自私之嫌。 - As shown in several results, women today are a complex combination of altruistic and materialistic, vain and insecure, loyal and self-serving.
正如在一些研究中表明的一样,当今社会女人是利他和唯物,虚荣和不安全感,诚实和自私的矛盾体。 - He had a reputation for being politically officious and self-serving. I, a university student's life goal: Peasant woman, mountain spring, a little field.
他因在政治上爱管闲事和个人奋斗而出名。我,一个大学生的人生奋斗目标:农妇,山泉,有点田。 - A lot of people avoid doing this they say its too self-serving.
很多人会避免这么做他们会觉得这样显得太功利了。 - When things go well, the self-serving attribution bias, we'll credit ourselves.
当事情顺利时,自我服务归因偏向,我们就会觉得是自己能干。 - It does not for self-serving reasons does actual harm, and it can still do your community good.
这并不表示为了自身利益而帮助他人是可以造福你的社区。