多年来，理论经济学家把人类描述为理性的存在，不懈地追求完全利己的回报的最大化。
For many years, theoretical economists characterized humans as rational beings relentlessly bent on maximizing purely selfish reward.
他们当中，并非所有人的行动都是出于利己的目的。
切不可作任何损人利己的事。
但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。
这完全是一件利己的事。
欺压贫穷为要利己的，并送礼与富户的，都必缺乏。
He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich-both come to poverty. Sayings of the wise.
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。
Both are anonymous, so from a purely self-interested perspective, there's no reason to share at all.
从那时起，我知道身体最重要的部位不是利己的部位，而是对别人的痛苦能感同身受的部位。
Then and there I knew the most important body part is not a selfish one. It is sympathetic to the pain of others.
在这些案例中，我们看到了人们是如何做出损人不利己的事情，他们浪费稀缺的资源仅仅为了惩罚羞辱他们的人。
In it, we see ample proof that people are willing to cut off their nose to spite their face, often expending scarce resources to punish those who have affronted them.
而它的批评者们则反击道，现在的谷歌已踏足那么多不同的业务，其通过歪曲搜索结果以图利己的念头恐怕已大到无法自持。
Its critics charge that now Google has a presence in so many different businesses, its temptation to tweak search results in its favour is too great to resist.
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。
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.
无论您的意图是利他还是利己(或者两者都有)，您都应该利用那些您所在城市可用的公共交通选项。
Whether your intentions are altruistic or selfish (or both), you owe it to yourself to explore the public transit options available to you in your city.
通常只会鼓励利己行为的自然进化，也会奖励这种合作行为，称为血亲进化，因为亲属之间包含很多相同的基因。
Natural selection, which usually promotes only selfish behavior, can reward this kind of cooperative behavior, called kin selection, because relatives contain many of the same genes.
利己行为的逻辑诱惑则不同：这种观点似乎无可辩驳。
The logical lure of egoism is different: the view seems impossible to disprove.
但利己主义和明智的政策选择可以减少麻烦发生的几率。
But self-interest and sensible policy can cut the odds of trouble.
因此，利己主义作为一种人类行为理论，其产生心理诱惑的部分原因是人们对已自身或他人动机具有的某种谦逊或怀疑态度。
So the psychological lure of egoism as a theory of human action is partly explained by a certain humility or skepticism people have about their own or others' motives.
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。
To sum up: a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided.
他的所有决定都受利己之心的支配。
All his decisions have been entirely governed by self-interest.
这一观点——利己主义——的诱惑有两个来源，一个是心理上的，另一个是逻辑上的。
The lure of this view — egoism — has two sources, one psychological, the other logical.
这一观点(利己主义)的诱惑有两个来源：一个是心理上的，另一个是逻辑上的。
The lure of this view - egoism - has two sources, one psychological, the other logical. Consider first the psychological.
“这是开明的利己主义，而且也没有什么错，”Tiller公司，一家给大型企业的慈善捐赠方案提供建议的咨询公司的创始人罗布·邓森说。
“It’s enlightened self-interest, and there’s nothing wrong with that,” said Rob Densen, the founder of Tiller, a consulting firm that advises major corporations on their charitable giving programs.
例如，几乎所有人(也有例外)都意识到一个基本的道德原则，即人不应当损人利己。
For example, almost everyone recognizes (with some exceptions) the elementary moral principle that you should not do something for your own benefit if it harms another person.
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。
Windmillsand solar cells hardly seem like ways of producing enough electricity to powera busy, self-interested world, as furnaces and steam-turbines now do.
谬误的推理在争论中驳倒他人非常有效，而且当只关注支持己方观点的论据，而无视不利己方观点的论据时，这种推理尤其有效。
Fallacious reasoning, especially reasoning that focuses on what supports our views and ignores what counts against them, is very effective for the purpose of winning arguments with other people.
但是艾臣·格林指出，欧元抵挡住了普遍性的损人利己政策，也许已经起到了保护欧洲单一市场的作用。
But Mr Eichengreen notes that the euro, by militating against more widespread beggar-thy-neighbour policies, may have helped preserve the European single market.
无法否定利己主义可能听上去像是这种理论的优点，但正如科学哲学家所知，这其实是一个致命的缺点。
The impossibility of disproving egoism may sound like a virtue of the theory, but, as philosophers of science know, it's really a fatal drawback.
无法否定利己主义可能听上去像是这种理论的优点，但正如科学哲学家所知，这其实是一个致命的缺点。
The impossibility of disproving egoism may sound like a virtue of the theory, but, as philosophers of science know, it's really a fatal drawback.
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