Such books as there were on the self interested us.

我们对书架上的这些书感兴趣。

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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。

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Fundamentally, we're self-interested.

从根本上说，我们是自利的。

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The type of individual he tried to create, careful, self-interested, risk averse, this has become ? the dominant ethos of our civilization, has it not?

因为他笔下的个人主义，如强调个体利益，风险回避等,已经成为我们文明的主导精神，不是吗？

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But we are also strongly self-interested beings.

但同时我们也是极其利己的生物。

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Well after that, the bond price went up because people saw that as a sign that the company was tightening its belt and doing things right to have money to pay off the bondholders; so it was self-interested, I suppose--maybe you can ask him about this.

在这之后,债券的价格升高了,因为人们认为降低红利是一个信号,说明公司开始紧缩开支走向正轨,并且去偿付债券持有人,莱德利夫通过这种做法达到利己的目的,我想你们可以就此事向莱德利夫提问

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The single life is inherently self-interested: it calls for vigilance on matters of self-preservation both large (financial autonomy) and small (dish detergent), and, in many cases, it frees the solitary from the sorts of daily interaction that help craft a sense of shared responsibility.

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Likewise, the scope for self-interested bureaucracies becomes larger as the government channels more resources.

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The 1996 Telecom Reform Act failed precisely because it did not account for rational, self-interested behavior.

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