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
- The basic stumbling block to global peace rests with the self-serving ambitions of many nations.
全世界和平的基本障碍物在于许多国家谋私利的野心。 - If they have self-serving motives, or their values are out of step with our own, emotional intelligence becomes a weapon of manipulation and the results can be devastating.
当他们产生谋私利的动机,或者他们的价值观与我们的不合拍时,情商就会变成操控他人情绪的武器,其后果不堪设想。 - 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。 - Anyone wanting companies run by a self-serving, self-recruiting cabal could hardly improve on this incestuous system.
任何希望公司由一个自私自利、中饱私囊的阴谋集团来经营的人,都几乎不可能改进这种朋比为奸的体系。 - 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。 - But it has no monopoly on self-serving policies.
但施行自私自利政策的国家并非只有它一个。 - Instead, youll only paint yourself in a negative and self-serving manner the complete opposite of what you want.
相反,你只会塑造不积极和自私的个人形象这跟你想要的完全相反。 - A lot of people avoid doing this they say its too self-serving.
很多人会避免这么做他们会觉得这样显得太功利了。 - I mean, I know that sounds self-serving.
我是说我知道这有点自私。 - Many Argentines are fed up beyond measure with what they see as a corrupt and self-serving political system.
许多阿根廷人受够了他们所看到的腐败和自私自利的政治体制。
