Selfish
['selfɪʃ] or ['sɛlfɪʃ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; 'Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights'- Maria Weston Chapman .
乔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.
(a.) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.
錄入:玛格
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Illiberal, mean, sordid, mercenary, narrow, narrow-minded, self-seeking.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Egotistical, self-minded, self-indulgent, self-worshipful, worldly, illiberal,ungenerous, narrowminded, mercenary, greedy
ANT:Disinterested, generous, unselfish, handsome, liberal, high-minded,self-denying, magnanimous, patriotic, public-spirited, considerate,accommodating
手打:莎伦
娱乐性解釋/意思：
adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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例句/造句/用法:
- But with my three daughters, Emma, Jane, and Caroline--and my aged father--I cannot afford to be selfish. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But I suppose I am a selfish fool. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Commonplace young ladies can be quite as hard as commonplace young gentlemen--quite as worldly and selfish. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- As a selfish man will impoverish his family and often bring them to ruin, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- All children were so: a little anxious for novelty, and--no, not selfish, but self-willed. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Again I tell you it is not the insignificant private individual--the mere man, with the man's selfish senses--I wish to mate: it is the missionary. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He has too much real feeling to address any woman on the haphazard of selfish passion. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- But if such selfish maxims hurt you, Then live your life of silly virtue. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- And she settled herself, resting against my arm--resting gently, not with honest Mistress Fanshawe's fatiguing and selfish weight. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- As to the settlement of poor papa's affairs, my interest in that is not very selfish. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I suppose it is partly our fault that they are selfish, and act like spoiled children; but I've talked to St. Clare till I am tired. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I am sure he will put you up to a plan of making that vile, shabby, selfish Duke of Beaufort treat you better. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Then, as usual, she felt ashamed of her selfish thoughts and prayed inwardly to be strengthened to do her duty. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He concluded that the foreign mill-owner was a selfish, an unfeeling, and, he thought, too, a foolish man. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Am I a nasty, cruel, selfish, bad mama? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish--read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Mammy is the best I ever knew, said Marie; and yet Mammy, now, is selfish--dreadfully selfish; it's the fault of the whole race. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- St. Clare means well, I am bound to believe; but men are constitutionally selfish and inconsiderate to woman. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Unfeeling, selfish girl! 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- All men, taken singly, are more or less selfish; and taken in bodies, they are intensely so. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You two are restless, meddling, impudent scoundrels, whose chief motive-principle is a selfish ambition, as dangerous as it is puerile. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But between ourselves, Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a petty way as ever came before me. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Fred Lamb's passion increased daily; but I discovered, on our arrival in London, that he was a voluptuary, somewhat worldly and selfish. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- You were exacting, proud, punctilious, selfish. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- In that long absence of ten years, the most selfish will think about home and early ties. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- What a face she had--so comely--so insolent and so selfish! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He is the most fearful of giving pain, of wounding expectation, and the most incapable of being selfish, of any body I ever saw. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Those of a tradesman, returned the rector--narrow, selfish, and unpatriotic. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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