At the same time, we may notice that generous people don't necessarily suffer more or flourish less than those who are more self-interested.
同时，我们可能注意到，慷慨的人不一定比较自私的人遭受的痛苦多，或者得到的幸福少。
Fundamentally, we're self-interested.
从根本上说，我们是自利的。
This wasn't a perfect strategy, or even a noble one, but it was supremely self-interested approach that ensured U.S. primacy for decades.
这不是什么完美的策略，甚至并不高尚。但却非常自利，确保了美国数十年的国际领先地位。
Revisionist writers claimed that it was purely self-interested and its success overrated.
修正主义作家宣称此计划完全是自私自利而且它的成效被高估了。
Many wanted to freeze the EU's budget, but the more indulgent (and the self-interested) accepted a compromise of a 2.9% rise.
许多成员国本想冻结欧盟的预算方案，更多的成员国则表现出较为宽容的态度（或是出于自利），接受了一项折中方案，即预算增长2.9％。
The forces of negativity and scepticism, whether self-interested ornaive, must not prevail if we are to reduce the threat to the planet'sfuture without sacrificing future economic growth.
如果我们要在不损害未来经济增长的前提下，减轻地球未来面临的威胁，那么消极与怀疑的势力，无论是出于自私还是幼稚，都不得占据上风。
Based on or marked by a concern for self-interest rather than principle; self-interested.
基于私利的依自身利害而定的，基于私利而非原则考虑的；自私自利。
Both are anonymous, so from a purely self-interested perspective, there's no reason to share at all.
两者都是匿名的，因此，从纯粹利己的角度出发，没有分享的理由。
Or is it just because I don't want to confront the fact that people are the way they are, which is to say fundamentally self-interested?
还是说仅仅是因为我不愿意相信人类就像他们说的那样，从根本上是自利的这个事实呢？
Windmillsand solar cells hardly seem like ways of producing enough electricity to powera busy, self-interested world, as furnaces and steam-turbines now do.
风力发电和太阳能电池板看上去也不可能产生足够的电力来驱动一个繁忙而又极度利己主义的世界，就像锅炉与汽轮机现在做的那样。
Looked at from that Angle, the orderliness we see on the roads is a general expression of the capacity for human society to work in the context of self-interested individualism.
从这一角度来看，我们在道路上看到的有序不过是人类社会能在自利的个人主义背景下进行运转的通用表达而已。
A trade organisation arguing for, say, weaker pollution controls is instantly seen as self-interested.
比如说，一个贸易组织如果要求降低污染控制标准，这个组织马上就会被认为是在谋私利。
Forget for a moment the self-interested benefits that may come to people who deceive others for their own advantage.
世上确实有只为个人利益的行骗者，暂时忽略这些吧。
The activity of commerce - though driven by individuals' self-interested desires to better their own financial positions - would gradually force peace upon the peoples of the world.
商业活动——尽管由个人优化自己财产状况的自利的愿望所驱动——会逐渐将和平加诸世界。
But we are also strongly self-interested beings.
但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。
The nature of a state is a social man rather than an economic man, with a dualism of being both self-interested and altruistic.
国家的本性不是经济人，而是社会人，具有利己和利他的双重性。
Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。
An invisible hand seems to play an important role in science. Self-interested behavior of scientists may promote the good of scientific community.
“看不见的手”在科学中扮演着重要的角色，科学家个人的自利行为可以增进科学共同体的利益。
Self-interested drivers opting for the quickest route do not take into account their effect of lengthening others' journey times, and so can gum up a new shortcut.
选择最快路径的自私驾驶员没有考虑他们的行为对于延长其他人旅行时间的影响。因而，可能堵塞一条新的捷径。
The key is to frame your advocacy not as purely self-interested (" I don't have time for this nonsense "), but instead as a manifestation of your commitment to the company and your Shared mission.
关键所在，是不要将你的主张局限于利己方面(“我根本没时间处理这种没意义的事儿”)，而要将其扩展为对于公司和共同任务的投入。
The key is to frame your advocacy not as purely self-interested (" I don't have time for this nonsense "), but instead as a manifestation of your commitment to the company and your Shared mission.
关键所在，是不要将你的主张局限于利己方面(“我根本没时间处理这种没意义的事儿”)，而要将其扩展为对于公司和共同任务的投入。
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