Egoism
['egəʊɪz(ə)m;'iː-] or ['ɛɡoɪzəm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) concern for your own interests and welfare.
(noun.) (ethics) the theory that the pursuit of your own welfare in the basis of morality.
整理:塔尼娅--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.
(n.) Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.
伊莉斯校對
例句/造句/用法:
- There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Most of the remainder of children's alleged native egoism is simply an egoism which runs counter to an adult's egoism. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The facts which are cited in support of the alleged pure egoism of children really show the intensity and directness with which they go to their mark. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I tell you, you want love to administer to your egoism, to subserve you. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Selden felt an inner start; but it was only the last quiver of his egoism. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person now absent--of Miss Vincy, for example. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
整理:贾丝廷