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self-interested

/self-in-ter-ist, -trist, self-/US // ˌsɛlfˈɪn tər ɪst, -trɪst, ˈsɛlf- //

自利的,利己的,自利,私利

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : regard for one's own interest or advantage, especially with disregard for others.
    • : personal interest or advantage.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inegocentric

Examples

  • We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.

  • Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.

  • For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.

  • But in the case of black women, another study found no lack of interest.

  • But if you have a hearing and you prove that someone is mature enough, well then that state interest evaporates.

  • In the parish churches, many of which are of great interest, the predominant styles are Decorated and Perpendicular.

  • And with some expressions of mutual good-will and interest, master and man separated.

  • A desultory conversation on politics, in which neither took the slightest interest, was a safe neutral ground.

  • Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

  • His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.