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  • Derivatives : n  selfishness ; adv  selfishly
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

selfish ['sεlfɪʃ]
  1. 1. adjective [+person] [ reason] [ behaviour] 自私
    it was a selfish decision
    这是一个自私决定

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

selfish [ˈselfɪʃ]
  1. 1. adjective 自私的,自私自利

Collins English-English Dictionary

selfish ['sεlfɪʃ]
  1. 1. adj chiefly concerned with one's own interest, advantage, etc, esp to the total exclusion of the interests of others
  2. 2. adj relating to or characterized by self-interest

Examples

a selfish act that nothing will excuse
无法辩解的自私行为
Ann's trouble is she is too selfish.
安的问题是她太自私了。
Her attitude makes me mad because she is so selfish.
她的态度真让我很恼火,她太自私了。
His selfish behaviour irritated me.
他自私的行为让我非常生气。
His own lazy, selfish body might require a more drastic discipline.
他的懒惰、自私的本质可能需要更严格的纪律来约束。
I think the person's very selfish not to own up.
我认为,这个人不坦白招供,是非常自私的。
The book portrays the actor as a selfish person.
这本书把这名演员描绘成一个自私的人。
No other colony showed such supine,selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried.
没有其他殖民地表现出这种苟安的、自私的无动于衷,任其边境居民被残忍地侵掠。
A selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue.
一个自私而又狡诈的国家沉迷于制定欧洲通谋的黑暗计划。

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