So very often, our self-interest will just stop our desire to do what's right.

所以我们的自身利益,会阻止我们去做正确的事。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It means that you wish or desire to do something.

表示你想要或期望做某事。

I want to 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Hobbes believed, on the other hand, that the overriding human fact, the overriding motivation of human behavior, is largely negative, not the desire to do good, but the desire to avoid some evil.

另一方面，霍布斯认为，人类最主要的行为，人行为的最主要的动机，在很大程度上是负面的，并不是为了做善良的事，只不过是为了避免罪恶的发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And what struck me most about conversations that I had, either in Leverett or other houses, were students is their sense of mission,your sense of mission, your desire to do good, to make the world a better place.

在与学生的交谈中，让我印象最深的是，无论是在莱弗里特宿舍或其他地方，学生们的使命感，你们的使命感，你们对成功的渴望，让世界变得更美好的愿望。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

They might articulate a need or a desire, but what we have to do is understand all the technology ingredients and how they're evolving.

他们可能会提出要求或是愿望，我们所要做的事情是搞懂,所有技术成分，以及它们如何演变。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Or, rather, you could say Yeats seems to want to do this, seems to want to turn away from the present expresses the desire to.

或者可以说叶芝是想这么做，想从当代逃离,他表现出了这种想法。，–

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He says very explicitly, "The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people actually do desire it."

他非常明确地说，任何事为人向往的唯一证据是,人们真的向往它“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In other words, yeah, I still like it or don't like it, - but my liking has nothing to do either with desire or with approval-- moral, political, or however the case may be.

换句话说就是，没错，我还是喜欢它或者不喜欢它，但是这与我的主观意志无关-,不管是什么认同，道德，还是政治，与一切都无关。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's not just about Menelaus and what he chooses to do with his desire.

这不仅仅是关于Menelaus和他如何处理自己欲望的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选