"They feel like the parties are so selfish they can't even work together."

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If you're relentlessly selfish and calculating you would say, the chances that I decide the election are zero, so I'm just not going to bother.

如果你唯利是图,精于算计,你会说,我的投票能够决定选举的概率是零,所以我根本无需投票

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I wish that that weren't the case, but people are selfish.

我不希望这种现象存在，但人都是自私的。

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You know, one of the things that I say and only half ingest, is that I know of no more selfish act and a benevolent act.

我说到的一件事，只说了一半意思，即最自私的所为就是善举。

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What this often--What this can be viewed as, as an extended version of selfish gene theory, which is that to the extent you're interconnected with other people you care about them more for purely selfish reasons.

其实我们可以把这个观点视为，自私基因理论的延伸，也就是说根据你和别人,互相联系的程度,你对他人的关心更多是因为自私的原因。

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Ant the answer is: "Yes, it is selfish."

答案是“是的，那是自私“

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Hence, selfish genes will lead to altruistic animals because, to the extent that evolution operates at the level of the genes, there's no hard and fast distinction between your own body and someone else's body.

所以，自私基因会导致利他行为，从这个意义上说,进化在基因层面进行，你自己的身体和别人的身体,没有严格差别。

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If you have a cold, try to get away from your own selfish perspective, "I have a cold." Look at it from the perspective of the cold virus.

如果你感冒了，试图摆脱掉你自私的角度，我感冒了，从病毒的角度看问题。

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