She was motivated solely by self-interest.
她完全是出于私利。
To sum up: a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided.
总而言之：一个完全基于经济利己主义的保护体系是不可救药的不平衡。
I clearly had not found a way to help classes full of MBAs see that there is more to life than money, power, fame and self-interest.
我显然还没找到方法，让满教室的管理学硕士认识到：除了金钱、权力、名誉和私利，生活中还有更多比这些重要的东西。
He hoped his work at the university would give him insight into how questions of morality could be applied to places where self-interest flourished.
他希望他在大学的工作能让他深入了解如何将道德问题应用到那些利己主义盛行的地方。
Fortunately, volunteers are not motivated by self-interest, but by altruism.
幸运的是，志愿者们不是被自身利益而是被利他主义推动。
All his decisions have been entirely governed by self-interest.
他的所有决定都受利己之心的支配。
In fact, today, experts define office politics as proper behavior used to pursue one's own self-interest in the workplace.
事实上，如今专家们将办公室政治定义为在工作场所追求自身利益的正当行为。
I think it would be a gross distortion of reality to say that they were motivated by self-interest.
我认为说他们被自身利益所驱使是对事实的公然扭曲。
Not all of them were acting out of self-interest.
他们当中，并非所有人的行动都是出于利己的目的。
Banks are ostensibly acting in their own self-interest by cutting back on risk.
从表面上看，银行降低经营风险是要维护自身利益。
They pose plausible reasons why it might be in the self-interest of foreign officials to do so.
他们提出了一些看起来有理的理由，说明为什么这么做符合这些国家的自我利益。
But it would be a mistake to portray this concern solely as U.S. self-interest masquerading as advice.
但把这种关切完全视为美国以忠告为名谋求自身利益将是错误的。
They need to understand that stemming Greece's debt crisis is less an act of charity than of self-interest.
他们需要明白阻止希腊债务危机并非做善事，而是为自己着想。
As regards relations to other herds, modern technique has produced a conflict between self-interest and instinct.
对于与其他群体的关系，现代技术使得自利和本能产生了冲突。
Lacking empathy, people act only out of self-interest, without regard for the well-being or feelings of others.
如果没有同情心，人们只会从自身的利益出发，而不会顾及他人的状况和感受。
If you have loved ones, and you are doing it for them, that is more powerful than just doing it for self-interest.
如果是为自己关爱的人去做某事，这种动机比为自己去做要更加强大。
Thoughtful advocates of CSR also concede that companies are unlikely to do things that are against their self-interest.
有思想的企业社会责任的支持者也承认企业不可能从事同自身利益有冲突的活动。
The real task is to get them to act in their enlightened long-term self-interest, rather than narrowly and in the short term.
真正的任务是促使企业为自己明智的、长远的利益行动，而不是为狭隘的、短期的利益行动。
'I'd thought that our partnership was based on fairness, but now I saw that Bill's self-interest overrode all other considerations.
我本来以为我俩的伙伴关系建立在平等的基础之上，现在却发现，比尔把他自己的利益看得比什么都重要。
But on any one issue, a person may be in the minority, so simple self-interest dictates that there be special protection for minorities.
但任何一个人都可能在某个问题上成为少数派，因此，单纯的自我需要告诉人们，必须对少数派有专门保护。
Science insists on the value of truth even when it is inconvenient or harmful; most people's beliefs tend to reinforce their self-interest.
科学以追求真理为己任，尽管有时候这是不方便的甚至有害；而大多数人倾向于强化已有的观念。
The American idea, as I understand it, is to trust people to know their own minds and to act in their own enlightened self-interest, with a necessary respect for others.
据我理解，所谓美国信念(Americanidea)，就是相信人们不仅能够理解自己的思想，而且能依照启蒙后的自身利益(enlightened self - interest)行事，同时对他人保持必要的尊重。
The American idea, as I understand it, is to trust people to know their own minds and to act in their own enlightened self-interest, with a necessary respect for others.
据我理解，所谓美国信念(Americanidea)，就是相信人们不仅能够理解自己的思想，而且能依照启蒙后的自身利益(enlightened self - interest)行事，同时对他人保持必要的尊重。
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