self-interest

英 ['self'intərist] 美

TEM4 低频词

1. taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others

2. attempting to get personal recognition for yourself (especially by unacceptable means)

As the world's food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many.

Their current protests are motivated purely by self-interest.: 他们当前的抗议完全是受一己之利驱使的。

Committing your life to creating value is in your own immediate and direct self – interest.: 驱使你的生命去创造以你自己为中心的所想立即与直接获取的价值.

Unlike the trust model, it channels both self interest and altruism to serve the public good.: 和信任模式不同,这个模式引导了自己兴趣和利他主义去服务公共物品.

1. He has never exhibited the self-confidence, bordering on arrogance, of his predecessor.: 他从未表现出他前任的那种近乎傲慢的自信。

2. I felt so self-conscious under Luke's mother's intense gaze.: 在卢克母亲审视的目光下，我感到极不自在。

3. She has now changed into a happy, self-confident woman.: 如今她已经变成一个快乐、自信的女人。

5. She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.: 她抑制着心中的自怜，将满腔的怜悯之情都倾注在了他的身上。

self-interest (n.): also self interest, 1640s, from self- + interest (n.). Related: Self-interested.
[Self-interest] is a doctrine not very lofty, but clear and sure. It does not seek to attain great objects; but it attains those it aims for without too much effort. ... [It] does not produce great devotion; but it suggests little sacrifices each day; by itself it cannot make a man virtuous; but it forms a multitude of citizens who are regulated, temperate, moderate, farsighted, masters of themselves; and if it does not lead directly to virtue through the will, it brings them near to it insensibly through habits. [Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America"]

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