His motive, once again, is self-interest: it gives him control over every stage of production, and enables him to monitor the fickle fashion market and respond quickly to new trends.

他的动机还是自利——在本土生产他就能控制每个生产阶段，能让他密切关注变幻无常的时装市场，并迅速对新趋势作出反应。

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In short, our research indicates that when people are thinking about death, the self-esteem motive often trumps health and safety motives.

简而言之，我们的研究表明，当人们思考死亡时，自尊的动机胜过健康安全的动机。

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Self-motive refers to people's tendency and preference in the process of searching, explaining and organizing self-knowledge and information.

自我动机是指个体在探索、解释和组织自我知识和自我信息时所具有的倾向性。

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Mr Summers strongly denied one potential self-interested motive for a weaker dollar: to help the American stockmarket by improving the prospects of leading multinationals such as Intel, McDonald's, and Gillette, whose dollar profits from Europe have suffered from the weak euro.

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Yet Petterson is novelistically acute about human motive and self-deception.

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Rand also noted that only an ethic of rational selfishness can justify the pursuit of profit that is the basis of capitalism -- and that so long as self-interest is tainted by moral suspicion, the profit motive will continue to take the rap for every imaginable (or imagined) social ill and economic disaster.

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