self-serving

Bankers may be greedy, self-serving egomaniacs , but at least they are consistently greedy, self-serving and egotistical.

银行家可能是贪婪 、 自私的自大狂, 但至少他们的贪婪 、 自私和自我是始终如一的.

While his intentions are to save lived and prevent injuries, this manger is perceived as vindictive, uncaring and self-serving.

当他的意图将解救居住问题和防止伤害，这一个职员被察觉存有恶意报仇之心，不关心和自私的。

Mr Putin's speech contained a large dollop of self-serving anti-American cant.

普京的演讲中包含着大量自私的反美言辞。

Decision makers who are quick to take credit for their successes and to blame failure on outside factors are exhibiting the self-serving bias.

迅速满足于他们的成功并将失败归于外部因素的决策制定者显示出自我服务的偏见。

A lot of people avoid doing this they say its too self-serving.

很多人会避免这么做他们会觉得这样显得太功利了。

Professors are seen on the whole as lazy, self-serving, interested only in sabbaticals, prizing only their own research, and profoundly uninterested in teaching students.

所有的教授看起来都是既懒惰又自私，只对休假感兴趣，只重视自己的研究，而对教书一点兴趣都没有。

A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant. in an unctuous voice

谄媚者出于私利而吹捧或尊敬他人的人；拍马者用谄媚[柔媚]的声音

I know this may sound self-serving,

我知道这听起来有些自私

It seems quite clear that the emperor used this theme to make a political claim to be a conscientious ruler of the majority farming population as well as to rehearse the self-serving Confucian moral ideology.

皇帝很明显利用这个主题作政治宣言，来表示他是一个广大农业人口的正直的统治者，同时表现自己追求儒家的道德理想。

Bankers may be greedy, self-serving egomaniacs, but at least they are consistently greedy, self-serving and egotistical.

银行家可能是贪婪、自私的自大狂，但至少他们的贪婪、自私和自我是始终如一的。

Anyone wanting companies run by a self-serving, self-recruiting cabal could hardly improve on this incestuous system.

任何希望公司由一个自私自利、中饱私囊的阴谋集团来经营的人，都几乎不可能改进这种朋比为奸的体系。

Suppose it becomes self-serving and tyrannical at the expense of the people, or denies them an effective opportunity to change an unjust law.

设想国家牺牲人民的利益，变得自私、专横，或者剥夺人民改变不公正法律的有效机会。

...corrupt, self-serving politicians.

贪污腐败、一心谋私利的政治家们

He agrees that Silicon Valley's incessant riff is self-serving.

他认为，硅谷人士源源不断的说教都是为了私利。

But the movement is not just self-serving.

这场运动不单只为了个人利益。

That is, they were more prone to being duplicitous and self-serving, cold-hearted and lacking in empathy, vain and selfish, and more likely to derive pleasure from other people's pain.

也就是说，他们更加狡黠、以自我为中心、冷酷、缺乏同情心、自负又自私，喜欢将自己的快乐建立在他人的痛苦之上。

Whichever version (if any) is true, the story will give comfort to those who see American talk of human rights as self-serving prattle.

不管哪一个版本是真的（如果有一版是真的话），此次事件将会给那些视美国人口中的人权为自私的废话的人一些安慰。

By associating sovereignty with the right to reject democratic standards, and inviting other countries to join them, Russia's leaders have emboldened politicians across the world to impose their own forms of autocratic rule with the self-serving pretext that democracy needs to be' adapted" to local conditions.

俄罗斯的领导人们把主权和拒绝民主标准的权利联系在一起，并邀请其他国家加入俄罗斯的行列，这给世界各地的政客壮了胆，让他们敢在民主需要“适应”当地条件的自利借口下施行各自的威权统治。

The global "currency wars" are likely here to stay, due to the fine line between legitimate monetary balancing and sometimes self-serving trade manipulation.

全球“货币战”很可能还将延续下去，因为合情合理的货币平衡政策与损人利己的贸易操纵行为之间的界限并不明显。

Society needs banks but not the self-serving kind we have today.

社会需要银行，但不是当今那种自私的银行。

I think some people find the essay the last resort of the egoist, a much too self-conscious and self-serving form for their taste;

我想，有些人会认为随笔是自我主义者的最后一招，是一种扭捏作态、自私自利的文体形式，不对他们的口味。

He had a reputation for being politically officious and self-serving. I, a university student's life goal: Peasant woman, mountain spring, a little field.

他因在政治上爱管闲事和个人奋斗而出名。我，一个大学生的人生奋斗目标：农妇，山泉，有点田。

The Relations among Personal Strivings, Personality Traits and Subjective Well-being in Undergraduates; He had a reputation for being politically officious and self-serving.

大学生个人奋斗、人格特质与主观幸福感的关系他因在政治上爱管闲事和个人奋斗而出名。

They suggest that my motives for proposing reform are self-serving and mercenary.

他们暗示说我之所以提议改革是贪图金钱，想谋取私利。

An unconcerned, detached and self-serving attitude quickly limits career advancement.

冷漠离群、以自我为中心的态度很快便会断送职业发展。

Most people sense that cold calls are self-serving to the person calling.

大多数人都感觉到冷来电是 自我 服务,以人通话.

Industry has been quick to fill the gap with largely self-serving publications.

公司企业立刻用 自我 吹嘘的出版物来填补这种不足.

When Asian values were hawked around the region a decade or so ago as some kind of distinctive philosophy, they turned out to be just a self-serving attempt to justify autocracies.

约10年前，亚洲价值观被作为一种与众不同的哲学思想在该地区宣传，但这些价值观只是出于证明威权政府正当性的自私企图。

Transocean hit back in a strongly-worded statement, dismissing a self-serving report

Transocean用一份措辞严厉的声明发起反击，称这份为BP利益服务的报告

They are base and self-serving or generous and-minded.

他们是恶劣的和自私的或有雅量的和高尚的.