self-serving

adj.

1. 只为个人打算的；一心谋私利的
   interested only in gaining an advantage for yourself

1. ADJ-GRADED 只为个人打算的;一心谋私利的
   If you describe someone as self-serving, you are critical of them because they are only interested in what they can get for themselves.
   1. 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。
   2. ...corrupt, self-serving politicians.
      贪污腐败、一心谋私利的政治家们

1. 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。
2. Some evidence suggests that people with depression have very low self-serving bias& they think everything is their fault.
   有证据表明，得忧郁症的人缺乏自利偏见，他们觉得所有的问题都是自己造成的。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. ( Laughter) And we thought this was a very interesting comment on America, and a kind of self-serving, not my responsibility kind of phenomenon.
   （笑声）我们觉得这是对美国的一种很有趣的评论，一种事不关己、高高挂起，明哲保身的现象。
7. Mr. Perry acknowledges that his notes were cordial but may have sounded too self-serving.
   佩里承认他发送的信息都挺诚恳的，但可能听起来有点自私。
8. When things go well, the self-serving attribution bias, we'll credit ourselves.
   当事情顺利时，自我服务归因偏向，我们就会觉得是自己能干。
9. I have read hundreds of business memoirs over the decades and many are boastful, self-serving and dull.
   我在过去几十年间阅读了数百本企业家自传，其中许多都自吹自擂、别有所图、令人生厌。
10. Some of these complaints are self-serving.
    其中一些抱怨只考虑了自身的利益。
11. It does not for self-serving reasons does actual harm, and it can still do your community good.
    这并不表示为了自身利益而帮助他人是可以造福你的社区。
12. I mean, I know that sounds self-serving.
    我是说我知道这有点自私。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. Society needs banks but not the self-serving kind we have today.
    社会需要银行，但不是当今那种自私的银行。
16. To some, these arguments might sound self-serving, if not a throwback to old Reagan-era free-market views.
    在一些人看来，上述观点就算不是朝着里根时代旧自由市场观点的倒退，可能也有自私之嫌。
17. 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。
18. As shown in several results, women today are a complex combination of altruistic and materialistic, vain and insecure, loyal and self-serving.
    正如在一些研究中表明的一样，当今社会女人是利他和唯物，虚荣和不安全感，诚实和自私的矛盾体。
19. He had a reputation for being politically officious and self-serving. I, a university student's life goal: Peasant woman, mountain spring, a little field.
    他因在政治上爱管闲事和个人奋斗而出名。我，一个大学生的人生奋斗目标：农妇，山泉，有点田。
20. This paradox illustrates one aspect of his brilliance: his ability to justify his actions, no matter how entirely self-serving, as being done for others.
    这一矛盾反映出他的某方面的智慧：他能将其所为合理化处理，即不论他是如何完全的为自己服务，也是为别人服务。
21. 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。
22. And yet even our most self-serving actions can be justified to ourselves.
    然而，即便是做了哪些最为自私的事情，人们也能找到理由为自己开脱。
23. It has evolved into a self-serving elite; conspicuously, it has no base among the masses.
    党已经演变成一个服务于自身利益的精英集团，明显没有群众基础。
24. 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。
25. 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。
26. Bankers may be greedy, self-serving egomaniacs, but at least they are consistently greedy, self-serving and egotistical.
    银行家可能是贪婪、自私的自大狂，但至少他们的贪婪、自私和自我是始终如一的。
27. While his intentions are to save lived and prevent injuries, this manger is perceived as vindictive, uncaring and self-serving.
    当他的意图将解救居住问题和防止伤害，这一个职员被察觉存有恶意报仇之心，不关心和自私的。
28. We can safely assume that some are benevolent and altruistic; some are evil and self-serving; and others may have agendas we can only guess at and may be beyond human understanding.
    我们可以有把握地做出猜测，有些外星人是仁慈的和无私的，有些是邪恶和自私自利的，还有其他一些有什么样的目的我们只能去猜测，可能是超出人类理解的。
29. You murderous self-serving traitor! It's over!
    你这残忍自私的叛徒，该结束了！

adj

1. interested only in yourself

   Synonym:    self-seeking