self-aggrandizement

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 self-aggrandisement


1. N-UNCOUNT (在名利、权势上的)自我扩张，自我提升
   If you say that someone is guilty of self-aggrandizement, you mean that they do certain things in order to make themselves more powerful, wealthy, or important.
   1. He was interested in service, not self-aggrandisement.
      他热衷于服务他人，而不是追求更高的名利。

1. Because the self may very well wish one to go in a direction that the ego would prefer not to go in-a direction that might lead not to a path of self-aggrandizement but to a path of sacrifice.
   因为自性可能期望一个人进入一个自我不期望进入的方向一个不走向自我积资的道路而是走向自我牺牲的路。
2. If our relationship with others is based on self-aggrandizement, and our relationship to property is acquisitive, the structure of society is bound to be competitive and self-isolating.
   如果我们和他人的关系是基于自我扩张，和财物的关系是基于贪得无厌，则社会的结构必然是竞争性的、孤立性的。

noun

1. an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance

   Synonym:    self-aggrandisementego trip