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He was interested in service, not self-aggrandizement.

他热衷于服务他人，而不是追求更高的名利。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Though active in commerce or the professions, most of the wealthy were not self-made but had inherited family fortunes.

尽管在商业领域或职场活跃着，大多数富人不是白手起家，而是继承了家族财富。

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They say the Earps and Doc Holliday did not fire in self-defense, but used the law as an excuse for murder.

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and in fact in art and in religion, if I don't recognize my pain and confusion and suffering, it is not, in my words, self-vific.

事实上，在艺术和宗教中，如果我不面对我的痛苦，疑惑和苦难，那么艺术就不是，用我的话讲，有现实意义的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Hardly. Does it not require those qualities of self-control, discipline, and restraint necessary to achieve success here?

不！难道不需要那些特质吗,诸如自控，纪律与克制等，以求在此取得成功？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Through the decades, however, the masses have responded most intensely not to calculated appeals to their self-interest (though that didn't hurt) but to selfless, if not self-sacrificing, crusades for what is seen to be just and righteous.

CNN: CENTURY OF LIBERATION

While those founding truths about liberty and equality may have been self-evident, they are not self-perpetuating.

WHITEHOUSE: A White House Reception for Justice Kagan

It was a drag on our economy, and the kind of self-inflicted wound that we should not be self-inflicting here in Washington when we have so many challenges that we need to solve.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing