Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.

狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。

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“This is the most self-interested thing we have ever done,” he said.

“这是我们从来没有做过的最自私自利的事情，”他说。

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This stance has a superficial logic.And it may have a more self-interested rationale.

这一立场有一个表面的逻辑，也许还具有某种自圆其说的程式。

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The type of individual he tried to create, careful, self-interested, risk averse, this has become ? the dominant ethos of our civilization, has it not?

因为他笔下的个人主义，如强调个体利益，风险回避等,已经成为我们文明的主导精神，不是吗？

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But we are also strongly self-interested beings.

但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。

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Well after that, the bond price went up because people saw that as a sign that the company was tightening its belt and doing things right to have money to pay off the bondholders; so it was self-interested, I suppose--maybe you can ask him about this.

在这之后,债券的价格升高了,因为人们认为降低红利是一个信号,说明公司开始紧缩开支走向正轨,并且去偿付债券持有人,莱德利夫通过这种做法达到利己的目的,我想你们可以就此事向莱德利夫提问

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They revealed little funding from oil companies and other self interested commercial enterprises, who actually contribute heavily to global warming alarmists as protection money instead.

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The single life is inherently self-interested: it calls for vigilance on matters of self-preservation both large (financial autonomy) and small (dish detergent), and, in many cases, it frees the solitary from the sorts of daily interaction that help craft a sense of shared responsibility.

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Likewise, the scope for self-interested bureaucracies becomes larger as the government channels more resources.

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