Or are we rational calculators of our own self-interest?

或者是我们自身的利益，我们理性的计算器？

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.

我们期待一顿晚餐不能来自于肉贩，啤酒商，和面包店主的慈善，而是来自于他们对他们私利的关注。

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.

我们不能借着肉贩，啤酒商或面包师的善行而获得晚餐，而是源于他们对自身利益的看重。

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You understand how we can each work for our own self-interest and still produce a desirable social outcome.

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We're convinced, for our own self-interest, that the way we use energy, changing it to a more efficient fashion, is essential to our national security, because it helps to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and helps us deal with some of the dangers posed by climate change.

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Expect it so blithely that we will not challenge the expectation even when it works against our own economic self-interest.

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