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
- Mr. Perry acknowledges that his notes were cordial but may have sounded too self-serving.
佩里承认他发送的信息都挺诚恳的，但可能听起来有点自私。 - Some of these complaints are self-serving.
其中一些抱怨只考虑了自身的利益。 - You murderous self-serving traitor! It's over!
你这残忍自私的叛徒，该结束了！ - Blatant self-serving agendas may cast doubt on one's trustworthiness.
公然的“利己安排”也许会让别人对你的可信度产生怀疑。 - 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。 - And yet even our most self-serving actions can be justified to ourselves.
然而，即便是做了哪些最为自私的事情，人们也能找到理由为自己开脱。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。