self-serving

单词self-serving

基本解释

adj.: 只为个人打算的；一心谋私利的
网络: 自我服务；自私的；自私自利的

权威解释

• 只为个人打算的；一心谋私利的:

  interested only in gaining an advantage for yourself

英汉解释

• 自私的

• 自我吹嘘的

• 为个人利益服务的;图私利的

同义词

adj.selfishegotisticegotisticalself-centeredself-centred

反义词

adj.altruistic

例句

• Bill Clinton"s administration was bedevilled by self-serving leaks from ambitious staffers trying to promote themselves or their cause.

  克林顿政府饱受泄密事件困扰，那些野心勃勃的内部人员之所以这么做，为的是他们的前途或事业。

• As a breeder, myself, its a little self serving for me to say this, but it is still the best course of action.

  我自己做为一个饲养者，这么说多少有点儿私心，但这仍是最好的做法。

• But let us ask ourselves: what sort of self-serving doctrine says, "Please, put all the taxes on me" ?

  但是让我们问自己这个问题：有哪类为本阶级服务的学说会宣布‘请求君主让吾来承担所有的税收吧’？

• If Mary Lincoln had known how much pernicious mischief Herndon would perpetrate in later years, she might have been more self-serving.

  如果玛丽·林肯早知赫恩登在以后年代中能造成多么致命的伤害，她可能会为自己多考虑一些。

• Such talk, however self-serving, shows the fragility of the transition from the long dominance by the LDP to a more dynamic system.

  类似的言论，虽然有些自私，却体现了目前日本政坛这种转变的脆弱性（从自民党长期统治转变成一个更加富于变化的体制）。

• 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。

• So this seems like a good time to point out that this blame-the-public view isn"t just self-serving, it"s dead wrong.

  那么似乎这种怪罪公众的观点只是利己的好时机，这是绝对错误的。

• If psychiatrists are so protective of their turf to think they"re the only ones who can do this, it"s just self-serving and arrogant.

  如果精神科医生从于保护自己地盘的考虑，而认为他们是唯一可以在此领域做事的人，那只能说他们是过于自私和自大。

• The world"s love is often self-serving and self centered.

  世俗的爱往往是自私自利，以自我为中心的。

• 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。