selfishness

1. ADJ-GRADED 自私的;自利的
   If you say that someone is selfish, you mean that he or she cares only about himself or herself, and not about other people.
   1. I think I've been very selfish. I've been mainly concerned with myself.
      我觉得我一直非常自私。总是只关心自己。
   2. ...the selfish interests of a few people.
      少数人的私利

1. We must be mindful of the consequences of selfishness
   我们必须考虑自私自利的后果。
2. Sometimes a bit of selfishness, if it leads to greater self-knowledge, is no bad thing
   如果能唤起更多自知之明，有时候一点点自私并非坏事。
3. He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on 'selfishness' and 'rapacity'.
   他认为，过于拥挤的城市是一个建立在“自私”和“贪婪”基础上的体系的产物。
4. Selfishness is a detestable quality in anyone.
   自私是一种可恨的品质。
5. Selfishness is contemptible.
   自私自利是可鄙的。
6. All this trouble is caused by selfishness.
   这都是利己主义在作祟。
7. He traces all the miseries and discontents of life to insatiable selfishness.
   他把人生一切苦难和不满都归咎于不知足的自私。
8. She is the very personification of selfishness.
   她是个典型的自私者。
9. Wish you happiness, because morality dictates, would like to be with you, but my selfishness.
   祝愿你们幸福，是因为道德使然，想和你在一起，却是我的私心。
10. This behaviour illustrates your selfishness.
    你的行为说明你很自私。
11. I am a monster of selfishness, as you ought to know.
    你要知道，我就是个自私自利的怪物。
12. We have to admit that given our selfishness, we need the New Commandment to love one another.
    面对我们原来是那么自私的事实，我们不得不承认我们真的需要新的诫命来彼此相爱。
13. Busyness is the microscope with which we can see the disease of our selfishness and sin.
    忙碌只是一个显微镜，让我们看到自己身上自私和罪的蔓延。
14. Moral decline has also led to discontent, escapism, selfishness and an increase in suicides.
    道德沦丧还导致了不满、逃避现实、自私和自杀的增加。
15. Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness.
    我们的敌人以为美国是软弱和物欲横流的，我们会在恐惧和自私面前分崩离析。
16. He suffered from his own selfishness.
    他吃了自私的亏。
17. What a shame if one of our brothers or sisters dies of hunger because of our neglect and selfishness.
    如果我们中的一个兄弟或姐妹由于我们的疏忽和自私而死于饥饿的话是多么可耻的事。
18. His selfishness closes the door to our reconciliation.
    他的自私关上了我们和解的大门。
19. This shocked him into realizing his selfishness!
    这使他受到震动且认识到自己的自私。
20. Wherever you look, all you see is selfishness and dishonesty.
    不管你看哪儿，满目皆是自私和狡诈。
21. And the mainspring of it all was-the greed and selfishness of one man.
    而这一切的主要原因就是那么一个人的贪欲和自私自利之心。
22. God also gave me female frailty, sensitivity, peacockery and even selfishness as all women has.
    它还给了我每一个女人都有的脆弱、敏感、虚荣甚至自私。
23. Capitalism and neo-liberalism offers only rottenness and selfishness to humankind.
    资本主义和新自由主义的提供者对人类只有腐烂和自私。
24. An adult emotion was being born, stronger than her vanity or her willful selfishness.
    一种成年人的情感正在诞生，它比她的虚荣心或固执的自私心更为强大。
25. His selfishness caused him to refuse my solicitation.
    他的自私让他拒绝了我的请求。
26. The source of nearly all the evil and unhappiness of this world is selfishness.
    自私是世上几乎所有罪恶与不幸的源头。
27. But Tony with his impulsiveness and selfishness.
    但是东尼有他的冲动和自私。
28. For goodness sake, please have some respect for someone other than yourself and your selfishness.
    看在上帝的份上，请对自己和自私以外，对给别人一些尊重。
29. I acknowledged I can a little young selfishness, when the meeting want in to express the so-called heroism.
    我承认我会有点小私心，会想在什么时候抒发一下所谓的英雄主义。
30. I will not be too impatient at your selfishness and folly.
    我不会容忍你的自私和愚昧。

noun

1. stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others