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self-love

/self-luhv/US // ˈsɛlfˈlʌv //

自爱,自愛,自恋,孤独

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the instinct by which one's actions are directed to the promotion of one's own welfare or well-being, especially an excessive regard for one's own advantage.
    • : conceit; vanity.
    • : narcissism.

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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.

  • What happened to true love knows no boundaries and all that?

  • “I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.

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

  • In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.

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

  • The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.

  • Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

  • At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.