self-serving
英 ['self'sə:viŋ]
美
- adj. 自私自利的，自私的
近义词
subjective
英英释义
- 1. interested only in yourself
考试真题
- Next time somebody pushes corporate quotas as a way to promote gender equity, remember that such policies are largely self-serving measures that make their sponsors feel good but do little to help average women.
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实用场景例句
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...corrupt, self-serving politicians.
- 贪污腐败、一心谋私利的政治家们
柯林斯高阶英语词典
双语例句
- 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。
来自柯林斯例句
- 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。
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- 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。
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- 4. He is being treated for a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- 他因开枪自残受伤正在接受治疗。
来自柯林斯例句
- 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。
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英文词源
- self-serving (adj.)
- also self serving, 1827, from self- + serving, present participle adjective from serve (v.).