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
- The basic stumbling block to global peace rests with the self-serving ambitions of many nations.
全世界和平的基本障碍物在于许多国家谋私利的野心。 - 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。 - Instead, youll only paint yourself in a negative and self-serving manner the complete opposite of what you want.
相反,你只会塑造不积极和自私的个人形象这跟你想要的完全相反。 - 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。 - 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。 - This paradox illustrates one aspect of his brilliance: his ability to justify his actions, no matter how entirely self-serving, as being done for others.
这一矛盾反映出他的某方面的智慧:他能将其所为合理化处理,即不论他是如何完全的为自己服务,也是为别人服务。 - Some evidence suggests that people with depression have very low self-serving bias& they think everything is their fault.
有证据表明,得忧郁症的人缺乏自利偏见,他们觉得所有的问题都是自己造成的。 - 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。 - In reality, everyone has self-serving agendas, but it is the level of harm to others that determines the level of trust in that person.
事实上,每个人都有自己的“计划安排”,但是决定对一个人信任程度大小的是对别人的造成伤害程度。 - Bankers may be greedy, self-serving egomaniacs, but at least they are consistently greedy, self-serving and egotistical.
银行家可能是贪婪、自私的自大狂,但至少他们的贪婪、自私和自我是始终如一的。