self-interest

常见例句

Japan has plenty of self-interest in the endeavour.
在這種嘗試中附帶了日本很大的私利。
If justice equals self-interest and self-interest requires knowledge, ? well what kind of knowledge is that?
如果正義等於私利,且私利需要知識，則那是一種什麽樣的知識？
We cannot accept any librarian’s claim of professionalism without objective evidence because there is an inherent self-interest laying in that claim.
沒有客觀証據可以讓我們承認圖書館員的專業性，他們的主張中存在著一種固有的利己主義。

If not,the thinking goes, then self-interest will lead to overuse and destruction of shared resources.
Why do people become firemen, policemen, soldiers, freedom fighters, all activities that cannot be explained in terms of self-interest alone?
不可能衹用拿工資的理由，就能完全解釋爲什麽縂有人願意做,消防員，警察，軍人和爭取自由的鬭士？
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節選
So very often, our self-interest will just stop our desire to do what's right.
所以我們的自身利益,會阻止我們去做正確的事。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節選

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